Women Empowerment
Eleni
Siapikoudi
Female Underrepresentation: Are Women Electable?
The participation of women in the political scene remains even today one of the unresolved issues for the achievement of social equality, representation, and participation. In recent decades, remarkable steps have been made and the situation is clearly improved in Western-European countries. Similar improvements are obvious in other regions with smaller paces. However, many quantitative and qualitative analyses prove that we still have a long way to go to achieve equal political representation of the genders.