While women have entered parliaments in greater numbers across Europe, studies have found that they still predominantly work on so-called "female" policy areas such as education, healthcare or family and children. In parliament, women are also more likely to speak on these issues than men and committee membership and leadership is structured in a similar manner. In the executive, women are more likely to hold the ministries connected to these policy areas. However, a key dynamic remains unexplored: Are women taking over committee positions, ministries and speaking time on issues that previously were dealt with by men, or do they introduce and establish new policy areas that were previously not represented at all? The answer to this question matters for our understanding of how descriptive translates into substantive representation. Using data on parliamentary speeches, ministerial posts and committee assignments, I test how the salience of policy areas and their genderedness have changed with the increase of women's numeric representation across Europe.