Europe: Lack of gender balance in European Parliament
The members of the European Parliament will vote on 17 January on who should be their president for the next 30 months. Although the Parliament is fond of speaking about democracy, its internal procedures are not transparent, and women are still largely absent from its leading positions.
Currently women hold 35% of the seats in the EP. The European Parliament had had 13 president, and only two of those have been women.
Diana Wallis has argued as part of her campaign that the European Parliament needs to secure gender balance in its internal leadership positions as well as among the MEPs.
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