(2018) Almeida, Maria Antónia de Figueiredo Pires de; Tribunal Superior Eleitoral
It presents a historical analysis of the participation of women in Portuguese politics and reveals the
positive effects of the introduction of the parity law in 2006. In the 2015 national elections, for the first time one third of the elected the Members of the Portuguese Parliament were women. However, in municipalities there is still a long way to go to reach this level of female political representation.
