evidoria

← Back to browse

Literature / resource Imported

Female Participation in Political Life in Portugal and Europe

Portugal · unspecified · National · See the Portugal profile

Evidence: Observational / pre–post Top 100% 3/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Female participation in political life in Portugal has historically been under-represented compared to male representation, as has happened across Europe. In order to deal with this under-representation, the approval of the Parity Law in 2006 (Organic Law No. 3/2006, of 21 August

33 %
Minimum representation quota for electoral lists (Parity Law) (since 2006)

Details

Promoter
Assembleia da República/ Divisão de Informação Legislativa Parlamentar (Carla Barroso, Leonor Calvão Borges & Margarida Cabral) — website
Power domain
Political Power
Methods / tools
Awareness-raising, Monitoring, Benchmarking
Keywords
political participation, parity law, political power

Context

Informative sheet from the Portuguese Parliament (Assembleia da República / Divisão de Informação Legislativa Parlamentar) presenting the historical and legal evolution of female political participation in Portugal, complemented with comparative statistical data on women's political participation in Europe (parliaments and governments).

Activities

The sheet systematises legal and statistical data, tracing the introduction of the 2006 Parity Law (Organic Law No. 3/2006, of 21 August), which required the electoral lists for the Assembly of the Republic, the European Parliament and local authorities to be composed so as to guarantee a minimum of 33% representation of each sex.

Conclusions

The 2006 Parity Law is presented as a turning point in the historical trend of under-representation of women in Portuguese political life.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k)
Time to results
Short (< 1 year)

Commonly funded by

National / regional programmes CERV — Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values

Indicative funding routes for practices of this type — always check each programme's current calls and eligibility rules.

Do you run this practice? Claim it — verified implementers get a public contact pathway and can propose corrections.

Data sources

Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.

Similar practices you may find useful