We can see that in all countries there is a boost in the percentage of female members of parliament in European countries from 2000 to 2012. Although not all countries have increased by a meaningful margin.
From the year 2000 to 2012, the percentage of female members of parliament in the UK has increased the most, from a mere 4% to a whopping 24%. Whereas France, though it had 25% female members in the year 2000—which is already more than the UK in 2012—it still grew to 32% female members in the year 2012, although not a high jump, but still good progress. Germany had 33% female members in the year 2000, whereas Italy had 26%; but in the year 2012, Italy overtook Germany as it had nearly 40% female members, whereas Germany had only 36%. Belgium is a different story; though, from a surface level, it seems that it increased from 2000 to 2012 from 16% to 23%, but in the year 2008 it was 24%, meaning it was increasing from 2000 to 2008 but decreasing from 2008 to 2012.
This leads us to a conclusion that, over time, countries in Europe are allowing more and more women’s participation in parliament to make it more fair and democratic.