Italy
Data on women
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Basic information > About parliament
Speaker
Speaker
Roberto
Fico
(Male)
Year of birth
1974
Secretary general
Secretary General
Fabrizio
Castaldi
(Male)
Notes
Additional information about the Secretary General, in particular regarding their term.
Appointed on 29 Dec. 2021.
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.
Youngest member (years)
Age at the time of the last election or renewal.
Youngest member
Angela Raffa (Female)
Oldest member (years)
Age at the time of the last election or renewal.
74
Oldest member
Osvaldo Napoli (Male)
Total number of MPs, 46 years of age or older
255
Total per sex
Total of male
405
Total of female
225
Total per age interval
18-20
0
21-30
43
31-40
226
41-45
106
46-50
81
51-60
124
61-70
43
71-80
7
81-90
0
91 and over
0
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 | |
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Totals per age interval | 0 | 43 | 226 | 106 | 81 | 124 | 43 | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
Total <= 45: 375 | Total >= 46: 255 | ||||||||||
Male | 0 | 27 | 127 | 66 | 53 | 93 | 33 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 405 |
Female | 0 | 16 | 99 | 40 | 28 | 31 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 225 |
Reserved seats and quotas
Electoral quota for women
Quotas to promote the representation of women in parliament.
Notes
Voluntary candidate quotas with sanctions. The penalty for a party presenting fewer than 40% candidates of either gender is a reduction in the financial resources allotted to that party.
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
1945
National or local
Suffrage: National or Local
National
Restricted or unrestricted suffrage
Suffrage: Restricted or Universal
Universal
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
1945
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
1946
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.
1979