Parliaments and Representatives

This guidebook describes the roles and responsibilities of members of parliament highlighting their roles as legislators, parliamentary committee members, and public servants. It includes examples and references to the practices used in the Republic of Macedonia.

This training material describes the importance of gender sensitivity in lawmaking, monitoring of government’s activities, working in parliamentary committees, and building relationships with constituents. It also encourages looking beyond the numbers in gender representation.

The Women’s Parliamentary Club in the Assembly of Macedonia is the only parliamentary group where members of all parties represented in the Assembly meet and discuss legislative strategies to improve the situation of women in the country.

This brief provides description of quotas for women, proportional representation, and campaign subsidies as tools for overcoming structural barriers and achieving critical mass of women in politics.

This report gives an overview of the strategies applied in Bulgaria to increase women’s political participation and representation.

This annual brochure provides an overview and analysis of progress made and setbacks encountered by women in parliamentary elections and renewals in 2006. It presents data on women in national parliaments, regional and world trends, information on women presiding officers and women candidates.

This report focuses on women’s representation in political life in the United Kingdom, examining the feminization of politics and the integration of women and women’s perspectives into British politics.

This document presents the situation concerning institutional mechanisms for equality and their effective functioning in Council of Europe member States.

This report describes the processes and challenges faced by the Central Asian countries moving towards creating gender equality in governance.