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Monday, 28 April 2008

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Patrick Brown

I think it's even more sinister than that. If you can control who stands for election, you can subvert democracy. Increasing female representation may sound like a noble objective, but all it's done is increase the number of parachuted-in Oxbridge-educated female lawyers in parliament. The same will happen with all ethnic minority shortlists they're proposing. It's all about maintaining an oligarchy.

John Kimble

This sex discrimination is ridiculous - An MP should be the best person for representing their constituents.

I don't want some idiot representing me who only got the job because of quotas. As long as someone isn't racist or sexist and cares about equality then they are suitable to be my MP and everyone elses. Who cares whether they happen to have a penis or a vagina?

Also one has to feel sorry ofr people elected as a result of quotas - it will undoubtedly be held against them regardless of whether they are any good at the job or not. They won't be able to look other MPs in the eye and say I've proved I'm just as good as you by getting elected and I got this job fairly.

Barry Madison

You've hit the nail on the head. The problem is that women are choosing NOT to be involved in politics, so Spain is selecting its quota of women from a much smaller pool than the quota of men are coming from. This, of course, is not good for Spain. It would be good to have more women interested in politics, but presently they are not. To be realistic, they likely never will be as interested as men.

béa20

Emm, perhaps the problem here is that all the comments, not to mention the post itself, come from a male perspective. You all say that women are not as interested in politics as men are, and I wonder have you asked yourselves why this is. We have been denied access to politics, to top jobs and positions for so long by a patriarchal societal structure and the fact is that now we are having doors opened to us, now that there seems to be more sense to society, we will assuredly take advantage of those opportunities. Perhaps you do not like so much how it looks from the other side? Perhaps you now understand our anger and frustration over gender discrimination that has been a constant for women for a very long time. You display the same anger we have felt, and i assume you feel justifies in doing so. I wouldn't dissuade you from that realistaion. The figures still prove that discrimination relating to employment, salary, top jobs and unemployment is negatively focused on women. There is still a long way to go, and if you are worried, as a man, about women replacing you in your jobs perhaps you realise that there are women better qualified than you. It is a simple case of women frequently being better for the job. I disagree with choices based purely on the sex of a candidate, but if a man and woman are equally qualified, why shouldn't we reverse the roles for a while and employ the woman first. As females, we have suffered this for a long time and the Spanish law is about obtaining social and economic parity, rather than about protecting male egos. Besides, as you will surely admit, they are ever so fragile to begin with.

Nigel

A rather neat encapsulation of our own lead Fem. politico

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1020553/Why-does-Harriet-Harman-hate-marriage.html

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