International Womens Day 2016 by Dr Melanie Sully
"Mehr Frauen in der Politik? Weil wir 2016 schreiben" appeared in the Tiroler Tageszeitung 5.3. 2016. Reprinted in English by Euractiv 8.3. 2016 "More Women in Politics?"
Article by Melanie Sully reprinted in Euractiv 8.3. 2016 Mehr Frauen in der Politik
Here a link in English to OSCE commissioned study on women in local politics in Austria.
Der Standard quality daily did a special feature for Womens Day and the Institute for Go-Governance prepared the graphics on women in politics, governments and European Parliament of 28 EU Member States access here and scroll down 8.3. 2016
For International Womens Day the Austrian Association of Municipalties did a special feature on women mayors (Gemeindebund) traditionally low in comparison with female representation in regional and national politics. You can access it and the press department here
Frauen in der Politik (EU Mitgliedstaaten) %
Europaparlament/Regierungen (Senior Minister ohne Staatsekretäre), Erste Kammer Parlament)
|
Land |
EP |
Regierung |
Parlament |
|
Belgien |
29 |
29 |
38 |
|
Bulgarien |
29 |
35 |
20 |
|
Dänemark |
38 |
29 |
37 |
|
Deutschland |
36 |
38 |
36 |
|
Estland |
50 |
13 |
26 |
|
Finnland |
62 |
36 |
42 |
|
Frankreich |
42 |
48 |
26 |
|
Griechenland |
24 |
0 |
20 |
|
Irland |
55 |
27 |
16 |
|
Italien |
38 |
38 |
31 |
|
Kroatien |
45 |
14 |
25 |
|
Lettland |
50 |
29 |
17 |
|
Litauen |
9 |
27 |
24 |
|
Luxemburg |
33 |
27 |
28 |
|
Malta |
67 |
7 |
13 |
|
Niederlande |
42 |
38 |
39 |
|
Österreich |
50 |
29 |
31 |
|
Polen |
24 |
25 |
27 |
|
Portugal |
38 |
22 |
34 |
|
Rumänien |
28 |
35 |
14 |
|
Schweden |
50 |
50 |
44 |
|
Slowakei |
31 |
0 |
20 |
|
Slowenien |
38 |
47 |
34 |
|
Spanien |
43 |
29 |
43 |
|
Tschechien |
24 |
18 |
20 |
|
Ungarn |
19 |
0 |
10 |
|
Vereinigtes Königreich |
41 |
32 |
29 |
|
Zypern |
17 |
8 |
13 |
|
EU-28 |
37 |
28 |
29 |
Quellen: Europäische Kommission (Stand November 2015) IPU Interparlamentarische Union
Eigenberechnungen bspw für Vereinigtes Königreich http://www.go-governance.com/projects/projects-women/190-women-in-politics-post-uk-election.html
Österreich Parlaments Homepage
Nationalrat http://www.parlament.gv.at/SERV/STAT/PERSSTAT/FRAUENANTEIL/frauenanteil_NR.shtml
Bundesrat
http://www.parlament.gv.at/SERV/STAT/PERSSTAT/FRAUENANTEIL/frauenanteil_BR.shtml
Europaparlament nach Parteien
https://www.parlament.gv.at/WWER/EU/
The links above are to the homepages of the European Commission where data is updated quarterly in different languages and to the Austrian parliament where you can access current data of female MPs in the different parliamentary groups of both Houses.
As to the government in Austria there are two so-called junior ministers one female and one male. However this function is not comparable across EU Member States and Poland and the UK for example have many more junior ministers. Some governments have no junior ministers at all.
As to Upper Houses of Parliament in EU countries female representation in the EU is at 26% with Belgium at 50% and Rumania and Slovenia at 8% and Austria 31%. These figures change regularly during the year depending on regional elections.
Speakers in parliaments of the 28 EU Member States Lower House are currently Bulgaria, Denmark, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Austria and Finland.
Speakers in the Upper House of the 28 EU Member States are to be found in Belgium, the Netherlands and the UK.
As to Mayors the average in the EU is 15% female with some countries zero such as Cyprus and Czech Republic, Lithuania, Rumania and Greece with less than 7% which is about what the figure is for Austria. Sweden with 37% is at the top.