The proportion of women in state parliaments is stagnating at the 2008 level

Women are still clearly in the minority in the parliaments of the federal states. Their proportion is stagnating at around the same level as in 2008. According to the Federal Statistical Office, one in three delegates is currently a woman; in the reference year the proportion was around one percentage point lower.

None of the parliaments achieves equal gender distribution or a higher proportion of women. Nevertheless, individual federal states differ significantly from one another. In the Hamburg citizenship, 49 percent of the seats are held by women. This is followed by Bremen (43 percent), Schleswig-Holstein and Berlin (38 percent).

Women are particularly underrepresented in the southeast

Fewer women are represented in the Bavarian state parliament; only one in four representatives is female. In Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, the proportion of women is also very low at 28 percent, it was said. The proportion of women did not increase significantly compared to the same day last year. While more women were elected to parliament in Baden-Württemberg, they are now represented somewhat less frequently in Rhineland-Palatinate.