Argentina
Data on women
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Basic information > About parliament
Speaker
Speaker
Cristina Elisabet
Fernández de Kirchner
(Female)
Year of birth
1953
Additional information
Vice-President of the country
Secretary general
Secretary General
Marcelo
Fuentes
(Male)
Notes
Additional information about the Secretary General, in particular regarding their term.
10 Dec. 2019 -
Members
Current number of members, by sex
Men
The number of male parliamentarians who currently hold seats in parliament.
Women
The number of female parliamentarians who currently hold seats in parliament.
Percentage of women
Calculated by dividing the current number of women by the current number of members.
Age
Average age of all members
Age at the time of the last election or renewal.
57.00
Youngest member (years)
Age at the time of the last election or renewal.
Youngest member
Maria Eugenia Catalfamo (Female)
Total number of MPs, 45 years of age or younger
Total number of MPs, 46 years of age or older
Total per sex
Total of male
Total of female
Total per age interval
46-50
51-60
61-70
91 and over
Number of members, by age
| 18 - 20 | 21 - 30 | 31 - 40 | 41 - 45 | 46 - 50 | 51 - 60 | 61 - 70 | 71 - 80 | 81 - 90 | 91 and over | Totals per gender | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Totals per age interval | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 21 | 26 | 4 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total <= 45: 9 | Total >= 46: 63 | ||||||||||
| Male | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 14 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 44 |
| Female | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 28 |
Reserved seats and quotas
Electoral quota for women
Quotas to promote the representation of women in parliament.
Notes
Legislated candidate quotas. For all national elections party electoral lists are required to have a minimum of 30% women candidates with real chances of being elected.
Elections > Election results
Results
Members elected, by sex
Number of men elected
13
Number of women elected
11
Percentage of women elected
The percentage is calculated by dividing the number of women elected in the election and the number of seats at stake at the election.
45.83%
Number of women after election or renewal, by mode of designation
Women Directly Elected
11
New legislature
Total number of men after the election
The total number of male parliamentarians in this parliament/chamber following the election or renewal, regardless of their modes of designation.
41
Total number of women after the election
The total number of female parliamentarians in this parliament/chamber following the election or renewal, regardless of their modes of designation.
31
First Speaker of the new legislature
First Speaker of the new legislature
First name of the Speaker of the new legislature following the election or renewal.
Cristina Elisabet
Fernández de Kirchner
(Female)
Date of election
10.12.2019
Elections > Historical data on women
Women's suffrage
Women’s right to vote
Women’s right to vote
Year in which women obtained the right to vote
1947
National or local
Suffrage: National or Local
National
Restricted or unrestricted suffrage
Suffrage: Restricted or Universal
Universal
Notes
Suffrage: Additional Notes on right of suffrage
In some provinces, women were given the right to vote and stand for election at an earlier date
Women’s right to stand for election
Women's right to stand for election
Year in which women obtained the right to stand for election
1947
National or local
Stand for Election: National or Local
National
First woman in parliament
First woman in parliament
Year in which first woman entered parliament
1951
Notes
First woman speaker
Year of first woman speaker
Date at which, for the first time in the country's parliamentary history, a woman became Presiding Officer of Parliament or of one of its Houses.
1973
Specialized body - Women's caucus
Banca de la Mujer
(January 2007 - May 2012)
Formal or informal
Formal
The caucus is open to male MPs
No
The caucus is cross-party
Yes
Notes
The caucus became a Special Permanent Commission, approved by the Senate on 16 May 2012 (Expte. S-1307/11).
There are rules governing the functioning of the caucus
Yes
Activities
Issues dealt with by the caucus
- Issues related to equal rights, opportunities and treatment between women and men within the framework of what is established in article 75, paragraphs 19 and 23 of the National Constitution and in international and regional human rights treaties in which the Nation is part and will join in the future;
- Creation or modification of norms that regulate the conditions of public employment or work in relation to women's dependency;
- Health issues that specifically affect women;
- Criminal matters that affect women;
- Violence, sexual and workplace harassment against women;
- Any other issue that concern gender, at the discretion of the parliamentary authority, that requires the opinion of the body.
- Creation or modification of norms that regulate the conditions of public employment or work in relation to women's dependency;
- Health issues that specifically affect women;
- Criminal matters that affect women;
- Violence, sexual and workplace harassment against women;
- Any other issue that concern gender, at the discretion of the parliamentary authority, that requires the opinion of the body.
The caucus has a strategic plan or plan of action
Yes