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This chart represents the proportion of women sitting in the Senate compared to the total number of senators in France from 1958 to 2023. In 1958, less than 2 percent of the Senate members were women. The share of female senators slowly increased starting in the 1990s. In 2023, they constituted 36.2 percent of the elected senators.

In 2022, there were 37.3 percent women in the National Assembly.