Women in the European Parliament are as of now underrepresented. Women make up more than half of all the European Union’s 27 countries population but has less than 40 percent representation in the European Parliament. If socioeconomic status had anything to do with the results is what this study seeks to uncover. By creating correlation and regression analyses between the female share of EU parliamentarians and each EU-country’s socioeconomic status the study tries to explain the differences in each country’s share of female representation. The study bases its result on material gathered about female representation in the European Parliament as well as the average schooling, average income and employment rates of each individual country which have been constructed into a single variable. The question posed is if socioeconomic factors had any effect on the results of the 2019 European Parliament election regarding female representation. In addition to these variables, three separate control variables have been used to be able to separate the control variables effects from the relationship between the dependent and independent variable. The three control variables are ideology, gender quotas and the share of women in each country’s national parliaments. The result of the study is that socioeconomic status did not have a statistic significant influence on the result of the 2019 election. / <p>2022-05-25</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:miun-45700 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Sandström, Johanna |
| Publisher | Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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