Women in parliament: 1945-2018

Title: Women in parliament: 1945-2018

Description: This dataset contains the number and percentage of women in parliament following every national parliamentary election from 1945 to 2018. From 1997 onwards, this data served to create the monthly ranking of women in parliament. Since 2019, the monthly ranking has been published in Parline.

Type: Dataset

Format: XLS

Years covered: 1945-2018

Number of countries covered: all countries

Languages: English

Survey used to create the dataset: –

Publications related to the dataset:

• Monthly rankings of women in national parliaments for 1997-2018 are available on the IPU archive site.
• Women in parliament: The year in review
• Women in parliament: 1995–2020 – 25 years in review (2020)
• Women in Politics: 60 years in retrospect (2006)

Owner: IPU/Gender partnership programme

Other information:

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