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Good post - and the last, wow, I didn't realise that!

(I just checked; in the Left Party, it's 'just' 26 women out of 54 MPs.)

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Wed Sep 21st, 2005 at 08:47:01 AM EST
Jérôme, by the way, any similar statistics from France?

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Wed Sep 21st, 2005 at 08:47:42 AM EST
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It's pretty bad in France. The law says that parties now have to field at least 40% of candidates from either sex, or pay fines, and botht he UMP (right wng) and the Socialists have chosen to pay the fines, or to field female candidates in unwinnable seats.

The other parties, including the greens and the communist party, are doing better in that respect (the greens are probably close to parity, although I don't have the numbers right now).

The problem is that our greens are hopelessly divided and incoherent on a number of topics, and thus much less credible than their German counterparts. I'd never vote for them in France, whereas in Germany I'd probably vote for them (I hope that they will field Daniel Cohn-Bendit in France for the next election - now that would be something!)

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Wed Sep 21st, 2005 at 09:10:46 AM EST
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The law says that parties now have to field at least 40%
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Wow, that's a quota then. I wouldn't have thought they would have such laws.
by mimi on Wed Sep 21st, 2005 at 01:23:04 PM EST
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There are 70 women in the U.S. House of Representatives, out of 435 members altogether. There are 14 women in the Senate, out of 100 members. That's about 15% in both cases--without any quota system.

There have never been any women presidents or vice presidents.

by asdf on Wed Sep 21st, 2005 at 05:09:08 PM EST
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In the last Bundestag, the lowest figure for female MPs was the 23% for the CDU/CSU, SPD was at around 40% (I found these figures yesterday) - don't know about the current ones.

However, the Schröder government was dominated by macho men, and since earlier this year when there was change in Schleswig-Holstein state, all of the state PMs are men too... the Greens are unique for having females among the leaders, too.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Thu Sep 22nd, 2005 at 05:37:20 AM EST
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