Abstract
Prior research on women's representation conducted in various parts of the world has indicated that the type of electoral system, quotas, the timing of women's suffrage, women's participation in the workforce and a country's development all have an influence. In this study all of these characteristics are first investigated for the national parliaments of Europe. In a second step, the robustness of the model is tested by applying it to the Americas. This analysis reveals that the model generated for Europe does not provide a good fit for explaining the extent of women's representation in North, Central and South America. Consequently, it is still impossible to generalise about the state of women's representation.
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