The Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) is a committee of the European Parliament.

Membership

Chair

Vice Chairs

*Eugenia Rodríguez Palop * Sylwia Spurek * Elissavet Vozemberg-Vrionidi *

Robert Biedroń Robert Biedroń (; born 13 April 1976) is a Polish politician, former mayor of Słupsk, and LGBT activist who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. Biedroń was a member of the Sejm during its 7th session (2011–2 ...

Members

*Regina Bastos *

Edit Bauer Edit Bauer (born 30 August 1946 in (Somorja Šamorín) is a Slovak politician of Hungarian ethnicity and Member of the European Parliament (MEP). Life She is a member of the Magyar Koalíció Pártja, part of the European People's Party and s ...

Godfrey Bloom Godfrey William Bloom TD (born 22 November 1949) is a British politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber from 2004 to 2014. He was elected for the UK Independence Party in the European elect ...

Emine Bozkurt Emine Bozkurt (born 9 August 1967) is a Dutch politician of Turkish descent and Member of the European Parliament between 2004 and 2014. She is a member of the Dutch Labour Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists. In the Eur ...

Andrea Češková Andrea Češková (born 18 October 1971) is a Czech Civic Democratic Party politician. She was a Member of the European Parliament for the Czech Republic between 2009 and 2014. After graduating in law from Charles University in Prague, Češkov� ...

* Marije Cornelissen *Silvia Costa *

Tadeusz Cymański Tadeusz Cymański (; born 6 June 1955 in Nowy Staw) is a Polish conservative politician. He was elected to the Sejm The Sejm (English: , Polish: ), officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland ( Polish: ''Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Pols ...

Ilda Figueiredo Maria Ilda da Costa Figueiredo (born 30 October 1948 in Troviscal, Oliveira do Bairro) is a Portuguese politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Portuguese Communist Party, part of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left gro ...

Iratxe García Iratxe García Pérez (; born 7 October 1974) is a Spanish politician of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). She has served as Member of the European Parliament since 2004, and has served as the Leader of the Progressive Alliance of Soc ...

Zita Gurmai Zita Gurmai (born 1 June 1965 in Budapest) is a Hungarian politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 until 2014. She is a member of the Hungarian Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists. Education an ...

Mary Honeyball Mary Hilda Rosamund Honeyball (born 12 November 1952 in Weymouth, Dorset) is a former British Labour Party politician. She was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for London from 2000 to 2019. Seventh on Labour's 1999 list, she had not b ...

Sophie in 't Veld Sophia Helena "Sophie" in 't Veld (born 13 September 1963) is a Dutch politician of the Democrats 66 party. She was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2004, and reelected in 2009, 2014 and 2019. She was her party's top candidate fo ...

Teresa Jiménez-Becerril María Teresa Jiménez-Becerril Barrio (born 24 July 1961 at Seville) is a Spanish politician, journalist and businesswomen who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 until 2014. In 2002 Jiménez-Becerril became President of the ...

Nicole Kiil-Nielsen Nicole Kiil-Nielsen (born 21 August 1949, in Larchamp) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the West France constituency. She is a member of The Greens. She has been a feminis ...

Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou is a Greek politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2014, and served as First Vice-President of the European Parliament from 2007 to 2009. She is the current Regional Governor of the ...

*Constance Le Grip *

Astrid Lulling Astrid Lulling (born 11 June 1929, in Schifflange) is a politician in Luxembourg. She was a Member of the European Parliament (1965–1974 and 1989–2014) for the Christian Social People's Party, part of the European People's Party. Positi ...

* Angelika Niebler *

Siiri Oviir Siiri Oviir (born 3 November 1947) is an Estonian politician and Member of the European Parliament. Oviir was born in Tallinn. As an MEP, she belonged to the Estonian Centre Party until she decided to leave on 9 April 2012. Oviir is married to ...

Antonia Parvanova Antonyia Parvanova ( bg, Антония Първанова; born 26 April 1962, in Dobrich) is a Bulgarian politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament in 2007 and from 2009 until 2014. She is a member of the National Movement Sim ...

Frédérique Ries Frédérique Ries (born 14 May 1959) is a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the French Community of Belgium with the MR/ MCC/ PRL, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. She is a member of the de ...

Raül Romeva Raül Romeva i Rueda (born 12 March 1971) is a politician from Spain and a former Member of the European Parliament with the , part of the European Greens. He sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs and its Committee on Wome ...

Nikki Sinclaire Nicole Sinclaire (born 26 July 1968) is a British politician and former leader of the We Demand a Referendum Party who served as a Member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands from 2009 to 2014. She was elected MEP in June 2009, as ...

Joanna Skrzydlewska Joanna Katarzyna Skrzydlewska (born 17 February 1977 in Łódź) is a Polish politician. She was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 11,822 votes in 9 Łódź district as a candidate from the Civic Platform Civic Platform ( pl, P ...

Marc Tarabella Marc Tarabella (born 11 March 1963) is a Belgian politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament for the French Community of Belgium with the Parti Socialiste, part of the Socialist Group. Early life Tarabella was born i ...

Britta Thomsen Britta Thomsen (born 23 January 1954 in Aalborg) is a Danish politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 until 2014. She is a member of the Social Democrats, which is part of the Party of European Socialists. In parli ...

Marina Yannakoudakis Marina Yannakoudakis (born 16 April 1956) is a member of the European Economic and Social Committee and a former Conservative Member of the European Parliament for London. She was elected at the 2009 European Parliament election. She lost her sea ...

Anna Záborská Anna Záborská (born 7 June 1948 in Zürich) is a Slovak politician of the Christian Union party, living in Bojnice. From 2004 to 2019 she was a Member of the European Parliament, where she was a member of the Group of the European People's Pa ...

Helene Fritzon Helene or Hélène may refer to: People *Helene (given name), a Greek feminine given name * Helen of Troy, the daughter of Zeus and Leda *Helene, a figure in Greek mythology who was a friend of Aphrodite and helped her seduce Adonis * Helene (A ...

Substitutes

Roberta Angelilli Roberta Angelilli (born 1 February 1965 in Rome) is an Italian politician. She has been a Member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 2014. She served also as Vice President of the European Parliament from 1 July 2009 to 1 July 2014. In 20 ...

* Izaskun Bilbao Barandica *

Vilija Blinkevičiūtė Vilija Blinkevičiūtė (born 3 March 1960 in Linkuva, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian lawyer and politician, Member of the European Parliament and former long-term Minister for Social Security and Labour. Blinkevičiūtė is a member of the Social ...

Franziska Brantner Franziska Katharina Brantner (born 24 August 1979) is a German politician of the Green Party who has been serving as a member of the German Parliament since 2013. In addition to her parliamentary mandate, Brantner has been a Parliamentary State ...

Anne Delvaux Anne Delvaux (; born 20 October 1970 in Liège) is a Belgian politician and a member of the cdH. She was elected as a member of the Belgian Senate The Senate ( nl, Senaat, ; french: Sénat, ; german: Senat) is one of the two chambers of th ...

Cornelia Ernst Cornelia Ernst (born 30 November 1956) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany. She is a member of The Left Party, part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left. She was elected to the European Pa ...

Rosa Estaràs Rosa Estaràs Ferragut (born 21 October 1965) is a Spanish politician and current Member of the European Parliament (MEP). She is a member of the People's Party. Member of the European Parliament, 2009–present In the 2009 European elections, ...

Jill Evans Jill Evans (born 8 May 1959) is a Plaid Cymru politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Wales from 1999 to 2020. She was the first person to use the Welsh language in debate at the European Parliament. In June 199 ...

Mariya Gabriel Mariya Ivanova Gabriel ( bg, Мария Иванова Габриел) (''née'' Nedelcheva, bg, Неделчева) (born 20 May 1979) is a Bulgarian politician and a member of the GERB party serving as European Commissioner for Innovation, R ...

* Sylvie Guillaume *

Kent Johansson Kent "Lill-Kenta" Johansson (born 13 April 1956) is a retired Swedish ice hockey player, former head coach of Frölunda HC in Elitserien. Playing career Johansson started his playing career with Huddinge IK in the Swedish tier two league in ...

Christa Klaß Christa Klaß (also spelled Christa Klass, born 7 November 1951) is a German politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1994 until 2014. In 1975, Klaß became a qualified master in winemaking and has since been a self-empl ...

Mojca Kleva Mojca Kleva (born March 30, 1976) is a Slovene political scientist and politician born in Koper (Slovenia). On May 9 2011 she became a Member of the European Parliament replacing Zoran Thaler who resigned from the position due to accusations re ...

Kartika Liotard Kartika Tamara Liotard (June 26, 1971 – August 1, 2020) was a Dutch politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2004. She was formerly a member of the Socialist Party, was vice-chair of the EUL–NGL group, and sat ...

Ulrike Lunacek Ulrike Lunacek (] born 26 May 1957) is an Austrian politician who served as State Secretary for Cultural Affairs in the Second Kurz government, government of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz in 2020. She is a member of the Austrian Green party The Gree ...

Gesine Meißner Gesine Meißner (born 22 February 1952) is a German politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 until 2019. She is a member of the Free Democratic Party, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe ...

Morten Messerschmidt Morten Messerschmidt (born 13 November 1980) is a Danish politician and current leader of the Danish People's Party. He was a elected Member of the Folketing at the 2019 Danish general election having previously served from 2005 to 2009. At the 2 ...

Katarína Neveďalová Katarína Neveďalová (born 10 November 1982) is a Slovak politician. Between 2009 and 2014 she was a Member of the European Parliament, where she was a member of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D). She became Vice-Pres ...

Norica Nicolai Norica Nicolai (born January 27, 1958) is a Romanian lawyer and politician. An independent who previously belonged to the National Liberal Party (PNL) and before that the Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party (PNŢ-CD), she was a member ...

Doris Pack Doris Pack (born 18 March 1942, Schiffweiler) is a German politician, President oEPP Women President of the Robert Schuman Institute and former Member of the European Parliament 1989–2014. She served as a member of the Bundestag 1974–1983 an ...

*Chrysoúla Saatsóglou-Paliadéli *

Antigoni Papadopoulou Antigoni Papadopoulou (Greek: Αντιγόνη Παπαδοπούλου; ''née'' Pericleous (Greek: Περικλέους); born July 8, 1954) is a Greek Cypriot politician and chemist. She was one of the first two Cypriot women to be elected as ...

* Sirpa Pietikäinen *

Rovana Plumb Rovana is an unincorporated community in Inyo County, California. It is located at the western edge of Owens Valley, north-northeast of Mount Tom, at an elevation of 5141 feet (1567 m). History Rovana was established in 1947, when the US Vanad ...

Zuzana Roithová Zuzana Roithová (born 30 January 1953) is a Czech politician and former Member of the European Parliament. She was vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, a substitute on the Committee on ...

Licia Ronzulli Licia Ronzulli (born 14 September 1975 in Milan) is an Italian politician and a former MEP who represented The People of Freedom party and New Forza Italia party in the years 2009-14. She won a seat in the 2009 European Parliament election. S ...

Joanna Senyszyn Joanna Senyszyn (; born 1 February 1949) is a Polish politician and professor of Economics. Senyszyn is member of the left-wing party Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), in which she was vice-president (2005–2008). From 2001 to 2009 she was a mem ...

Eleni Theocharous Eleni Theocharous ( el, Ελένη Θεοχάρους; born 24 June 1953) is a Cypriot paediatric surgeon and politician who leads the political party Solidarity Movement (Cyprus), Solidarity Movement. She was elected to the European Parliament ...

Angelika Werthmann Angelika Werthmann (7 November 1963, in Schwarzach im Pongau, Austria – 17 October 2019) is a Member of the European Parliament since 2009, representing Hans-Peter Martin's List in Austria. Between 4 July 2012 and 7 April 2014 she was a member ...

Corien Wortmann-Kool C.M. (Corien) Wortmann-Kool (born 27 June 1959 in Oud-Alblas) is a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (Christen-Democratisch Appèl) who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 until 2014. She has a background in ...

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