The Influences Of Female Political Participation On European Union Public Diplomacy

Europe is the birthplace of feminism. European women’s consciousness of political participation germinated in early time and was becoming stronger and stronger. Being an economic and political integration organization that includes 28 member states, European Union owns a long history of female political participation. So far, EU has put forward some laws that protects female political participation as well as seizes gender equality. Meanwhile, EU promises that gender perspective will be implanted in all policy. In the post modern international relations, national competition starts to focus on soft power’s competition. In the process of EU’s carrying out the public diplomacy as well as establishing its peace-loving national image, EU is in need of feminine traits, such as tolerance, fraternity, democracy, freedom, patience, etc. Allowing more females to take part in political decision-making contributes to the public diplomacy’s development and thus makes it possible for people of other countries to approve and accept that EU is a peace-loving, democratic and open integration organization with diversity and unity, which results in EU’s achieving more discourse power globally.