As can be inferred from the chart, Germany, originally recorded the highest figures, but soon was surpassed/ overtaken by Italy in around 2010. Increases by varying degrees were observed across all the categories examined. While the UK and Italy’s data were shown to have a big leap, the rest experienced a more marginal pattern. Notably, Belgium is the only nation to suffer from a minor drop at the last phase of the period.

Regarding the figures for the UK, it is clear that women’s participation started off at the very last place, at a mere 5%. Throughout the period, substantial growth was witnessed, especially for the second phase, it secured a massive appreciation of more than 10%, the biggest gap recorded for any phase from the categories in the chart. In total, at the end, legislature of UK had approximately 23% female members. Furthermore, Italy ended the period at 39%, after a dramatic increase from 27%. This was also the highest percentage for the entire chart.

Meanwhile, of the three other nations, an identical pattern was experienced in Germany and France, in both of which a modest upwards trend of 7% was seen, finishing the timespan with respective figures of 37% and 32%. Belgium, last but not least, stood at shy of 25%, after going up moderately and then finally depreciated. 

As can be inferred from the graph, all the categories tend to rise except for Belgium. At the end of the period, Italy is the country that had the highest percentage of female members of parliament.

Regarding France, the number of female members of parliament stood at 25% in 2200, follow by Italy with 26% and Germany with 34%. Then, all three categories both registered a slight increase in 12 years. In 2012, Italy had the highest proprtion with 39%, while Germany and France are a bit smaller with 37% and 31%.

In 2000, the percentage of female members of parliament in UK stood at 4%, after which it observed dramatic rise before ending the period at 24% in 2012. Conversely, the figure for Somalia increased moderately from 16% in 2000 to 25% in 2008 and then subsequently fell to 22% at the end of the timeline. 

As can be seen from the graph, all four categories except for Belgium rose significantly throughout the surveyed timespan. At the end of the timespan, it was Italy which had the highest number of female percentage in the parliament. 

Regarding Italy’s figures, in 2000, it stood at 26%, after which was observed a moderate increase before ending the period at 40%. The same pattern applied to Germany and France’s statistics. Both figures underwent a steady growth starting at 34% for the former and 25% for the latter, before ended in 2012 with respective proportion being at 37% and 31%.

Meanwhile, the most remarkable growth belonged to the UK. It started at a negligible percentage of 4% and soared to five-fold in the next 8 years and then finished at 24% in 2012. In terms of Belgium’s data, it ended at the same figure as UK’s, which was the result of the increase and recovery period starting at 16% in 2000.

 

In 2000, German has the highest allocation of female staffs which ranged between 30% - 35%, while those of Italy and France were at a lower point for approximately 25%. all 3 countries rose steadily in the next8 years period. In 2012, Italy surpassed German and hit the 

Overall, an increase in percentage of woman can be seen from all 5 country. However, while the Germany, Italy and France experienced a trend of gradual increase, Belgium faced a slight fluctuation. Whereas UK went through a dramatic rise between 2004 and 2008. Moreover, while Germany started out as the country with the highest ratio of female members, it was overtaken by Italy between 2008 and 2012.
 In regard to France and Germany, it began at 25
and 33 female members respectively prior to marginally rose at 32 and 37
members in the end of the end of the period. Likewise,  Italy started at
27 female members, then hit it peak at 40 in 2012.  

Italy had significant growth with 40% at the end of the period in 2012, surpassing the figure of Germany, which was 37%. There was a gradual rise in the proportion of female members in Parliament in the UK and France. The figures for France rapidly increased to 32%, and the UK  witnessed a substantial increase from 3% in 2000 to 24% and was at the same level as Belgium in 2012.

It can be seen from the chart that the ratio of female members from all the given European countries experienced gradual increases by varying degrees with the only exception of Belgium, which fell slightly. Whereas UK had the most significant growth. Additionally, German female members’ percentage was the highest, however, it was surpassed by Italy in 2012.

Regarding France’s datas, it started at 25 percent in 2000 and increased steadily to 32 percent in 2012. Meanwhile, the allocation of women participating in parliament in Germany was 34 percent, registered the highest figure in 2000. However, while Germany rose slowly and gradually, it met Italy at 36 percent point in between 2008 and 2012. Subsequently, in 2012, Italy surpassed the Germany’s proportion and recorded the highest figure of all five countries given at 38 percent.

It is of note that the Belgium’s datas witnessed an erratic pattern. In 2000, the ratio of female members of parliament in Belgium stood at 17 percent, after which it observed rises in 2004 and 2008, at 23 percent for the former and 24 percent for the latter, before ending the period at 22 percent by a slight decline in 2012. Contrary to the first 4 countries, there was a considerable growth in the UK’s figures from nearly zero in 2000 to 9 percent in 2004, which was followed by even more remarkable increase to 20 percent in 2008. Finally, UK ended at 22 percent, at the same level as Belgium in 2012.