The share of women in the European Parliament has decreased for the tirst time ever.

The newly elected European Parliament consists of 61.3% male, 38.6% female and 0.1% diverse MEPs. But what does it actually look like in the respective member states?

This visual illustrates the gender balance between female, male and diverse Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) in each member state.

Source: European Parliament

  • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
    55·
    3 months ago

    Worth keeping in mind that the number of MEPs vary between countries, according to size. So while Germany has 96 MEPs, Cyprus only has six.

    So while Cyprus is not looking good in this chart, it’s not necessarily the worst in Europe despite coming off that way.

    Romania has 33 MEPs, six of which are female according to this post (18%). From Malta, 1/6 is female.

  • Lemmchen@feddit.orgEnglish
    82·
    3 months ago
    1. What’s the one percent from Germany?
    2. Why put “other” in the legend, when there’s no such entry?
  • activistPnk@slrpnk.netEnglish
    52·
    3 months ago

    Considering the right-wing parties won most of the elections in Europe, I guess this isn’t too surprising.

    And the reasons for the swing to the right:

    • “the green backlash”, as voters think climate is getting too much emphasis (WTF? We are still up to our necks in cars and farmed meat); and they believe climate is not impacting them personally.
    • young people struggling to get jobs have the delusion that right-wing parties will fix that; (there may be more jobs… debatable… but surely they will be more of the low-paying shitty benefits varieties of jobs). I heard the nazi party came into power under the exact same drive: people trying to vote for more jobs.

    So as the older generations are voting left in attempt to not hand-off a burning planet to the young, the young have signed up for a burning planet by voting to the right.

    I hope the next 4 years of news reports gives all these stupid voters a daily dose of climate disasters.

    • flying_sheep@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      Who apart from you is rendering judgment here? The graphic is simply ordered by statistics, not “goodness”

      • Mubelotix@jlai.luEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        You understand the graphic correctly. I’m affraid some people might not. I would prefer if the countries were ordered by most to least parity