In many established western, particularly the Nordic democracies, there have been incremental changes in women’s representation over the last few decades. While even Nordic legislatures were overwhelmingly male-dominated up until the 1970s, women’s representation has increased successively there. Norway provides an example for such an incremental process. After women’s representation in the Norwegian parliament increased slowly from 4.7% in 1953 to 9.3% in 1969, there was a significant rise in the 1970s (1973: 15.5%, 1977: 23.9%) and 1980s (1981: 25.8%, 1985: 34.4%, 1989: 35.8%). Since then, there has been only little movement (1993: 39.4%, 1997: 36.4%, 2001: 36.4%, and 2005: 37.9%).