Gender parity in Argentina’s lower house is slipping – since the change of lawmakers on December 10, women now make up around 41 percent of the Chamber of Deputies.
Compared with its previous composition in October, before deputies elected in last year’s midterms took their seats, the lower house has five fewer female lawmakers. The chamber now has 105 women out of 257 deputies, down from 110 in the outgoing legislature.
One of the main reasons behind the decline is the composition of party lists. In the most recent election, around 70 percent of tickets were headed by men, limiting women’s chances of securing winnable seats despite formal parity rules.
Argentina passed a Gender Parity Law in 2017, which established
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