The Percentage of Female Members of Parliament in 5 European Countries

The provided line graph illustrates the proportion of members who are female in parliament in five different European nations over the course

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years, starting from 2000. From an

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perspective, there was an increase in the percentage of parliamentary members who are women in all the five countries examined,with the UK witnessing the most dramatic rise.

However

,it constantly/generally/consistently had the lowest figures throughout the period shown. The ratio of women holding parliamentary positions in Germany was about 34%, after which it experienced a slight rise to approximately 36% in 2012. Similar changes, but to greater extents, can be seen in the figures for Italy and the UK, which grew from 26% to nearly 40% and about 4% to just over 27% respectively. Approximately 25%

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France’s parliament were women,with a subsequent increase and reached a peak of nearly 37% in 2004, before ending the period at around 32%.

On the contrary

, the figure for Belgium started at nearly 17% in 2000 to just under 29% in 2004 and levelled off/remained almost unchanged/stayed almost stable towards the end of the period.