In our analysis, we looked at the proportion of women politicians in government and parliament in Hungary, as well as in parliamentary party factions, in comparison with the European Union. Our analysis is based in large part on data from the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), which show that Hungary is at the bottom of the league in terms of the proportion of women in government and parliament among EU Member States.
• Hungary ranks second to last in the EU in the EIGE gender equality ranking, but even worse, it came last in the survey on women's power and representation.
• Uniquely in the EU, there is not a single female member of the Hungarian government at the ministerial level. UNECE data also shows that the 13% of women in the Hungarian parliament is far below the EU average of 31%.
• Looking at the parliamentary groups of the parliamentary parties, in general, the right-wing parties (Fidesz, KDNP, Mi Hazánk and Jobbik) perform worse in terms of the proportion of women, but the left/liberal parties also have a significant predominance of male MPs.
• With the resignation and stand down of Katalin Novak and Judit Varga, two of the most prominent female politicians of the past decade and a half have fallen from public life, who, especially in the case of the President of the Republic, played an important role in compensating for the lack of women politicians at the level of government and state leadership. So far, there is no sign that Fidesz-KDNP is making any effort to put women politicians in such high positions.
The complete analysis is availabe HERE.
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