Parité en Politique: entre Progrés et Stagnation

The research presents a mixed situation. Equal access between women and men is not a reality for all electoral mandates and elective functions:
- In the absence of legal constraint, men are in the majority among mayors, presidents of departmental and regional councils or presidents of inter-community.
- In the presence of legal inducements, such as financial deductions for no-shows
of joint candidacies in the legislative elections, the results are inconclusive.
- In the presence of legal constraints, women represent about half of the elected officials,
such as within the municipal councils of municipalities with 1,000 or more inhabitants or
in the regional councils.

Why it's a good practice: The analysis of the results of national elections in France, as well as European Elections and the participation of women in the various local assemblies, national or European and thus measured the implementation of existing systems, where
there are legal constraints and where mandates and functions are not yet subject
to constraints.

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