Parliamentary committees
The Gender Statistics Database (GSD) of the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) contains data on the numbers of women and men in key decision-making positions across a number of different life domains. Data may cover international, European, national, regional and local levels and currently include 37 European countries. Data covered the United Kingdom up to 2024. The GSD aims to provide reliable statistics that can be used to monitor the current situation and trends over time.
The domains covered include politics, public administration, judiciary, business and finance, social partners and NGOs, environment, media, science and research, sports, and transport. The decision-making positions covered are specific to each area.
A decision-making position is a position from which it is possible to take or influence a decision:
The politics domain includes statistics on women and men amongst politicians at the European, national, regional and local levels. Data on parliamentary committees cover the president and members of the permanent and standing parliamentary committees in all houses of national parliaments in each country.
Organisations covered:
Permanent and standing committees formed to work throughout the legislative period in national parliaments.
Positions covered:
Mapping tables:
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 |