The given line graph illustrates the proportion of female members in parliament among five European countries from 2000 to 2012.
Overall, almost all the surveyed countries recorded an upward trends throughout the given period. The number of German female participated in parliament dominated at the beginning, while Belgium surpassed and have the most participant at the end of the period. Notably, even though almost countries experienced significant changes, German female recorded a slight change for the whole period.
Looking first at three dominant countries, Germany’s female participant of parliament recorded the highest figure of the first year, at roughly 31%, followed by Spain and Belgium, with the former started at about 27% and the latter began at approximately 23%. While women’s share in parliament increased slightly to about 38% in 2012, the two followed country surpassed its figure before 2004. Spain’s female reached its peak of 36% in 2004 then decreased marginally to 35% in 2008, remained unchange until 2012. Belgium, in contrast, after stabilising at 35% from 2004 to 2008, this country’s women of parliament continued to grow slightly, becoming the dominant at the end of the period with about 38%.
Turning to the remaining countries, UK ranked fourth at the beginning, followed by Italy in 2000. During the first four years, while the UK remained its members consistently at roughly 17%, there was a marginal increase from 3% to 4% in the number of women in Italy. The figure in the UK rose gradually to about 23% in the final year while that of Italy grew considerbly from 4% in 2004 to 23% in 2008. This figure then remained unchange until 2012, when the UK reached it nadir and these two countries shared the same position.