Learning from each other: creating more gender-sensitive parliaments to strengthen democracies
Source: International IDEA
No parliament in the world is fully gender-sensitive. Women and gender-diverse people are relatively recent arrivals into political life, so many parliamentary institutions have developed without respect for their needs and experiences. This has led to discriminatory and exclusionary cultures, practices, and outcomes, many of which are unintentional.
Parliaments that are not fully representative of their populations are less likely to consider the needs and experiences of people of different genders (but also different ages, (dis)abilities, ethnicities, religions, and socio-economic backgrounds, among other factors) in their law-making, oversight, and representative roles.
A democratic parliament encourages inclusive political participation and represents the interests of its population, in all its diversity.
The global, EU-funded INTER PARES project supports the gender-sensitive transformation of parliaments as a core part of its work to strengthen the capacity of these institutions. A gender-sensitive parliament is one that embeds gender considerations into its culture, infrastructure, practices, procedures, engagement, information, and outputs.
INTER PARES supports peer-to-peer exchanges between EU Member State Parliaments and its partner parliaments around the world so they can play a full and effective role in advancing gender equality locally, nationally, and internationally.
Click here to read the full article published by International IDEA on 7 March 2023.
No parliament in the world is fully gender-sensitive. Women and gender-diverse people are relatively recent arrivals into political life, so many parliamentary institutions have developed without respect for their needs and experiences. This has led to discriminatory and exclusionary cultures, practices, and outcomes, many of which are unintentional.
Parliaments that are not fully representative of their populations are less likely to consider the needs and experiences of people of different genders (but also different ages, (dis)abilities, ethnicities, religions, and socio-economic backgrounds, among other factors) in their law-making, oversight, and representative roles.
A democratic parliament encourages inclusive political participation and represents the interests of its population, in all its diversity.
The global, EU-funded INTER PARES project supports the gender-sensitive transformation of parliaments as a core part of its work to strengthen the capacity of these institutions. A gender-sensitive parliament is one that embeds gender considerations into its culture, infrastructure, practices, procedures, engagement, information, and outputs.
INTER PARES supports peer-to-peer exchanges between EU Member State Parliaments and its partner parliaments around the world so they can play a full and effective role in advancing gender equality locally, nationally, and internationally.
Click here to read the full article published by International IDEA on 7 March 2023.
