The indicator shows whether elections to the parliament are subject to any form of permanent/temporary gender quota that is applied by legislation.
Gender quotas are instruments aimed at accelerating the achievement of gender-balanced participation and representation by establishing a minimum proportion (percentage) or number of candidates/positions to be filled by women and men.Gender quotas can be legislative or voluntary.
The indicator refers only to quotas that are applied by legislation to the election as a whole. Voluntary quotas adopted by political parties are not covered.
For Member States with a bicameral parliamentary system, the dataset shows two data points: one for the lower house (denoted “Lower house or single house”) and one for the upper house (denoted as “Upper house”). For Member States with a unicameral parliamentary system, the dataset shows only one value denoted “Lower house or single house”.
Please consult the methodological document on the gender sensitive parliaments tool for the full list of indicators underlying the tool
Available flags:
| b | break in time series | c | confidential |
| d | definition differs, see metadata | e | estimated |
| f | forecast | i | see metadata |
| m | imputed | n | not significant |
| p | provisional | r | revised |
| s | Eurostat estimate | u | low reliability |
| x | dropped due to insufficient sample size | y | unreliable due to small sample size |
| z | not applicable |