Published: January 15, 2019
Many candidates – across all parties – are not selected on clear merit, especially for winnable seats
Gender quotas have been a hot topic, but while they will increase the quantity of women they are not a magic bullet solution to improve the quality of parliament.
That’s because the primary issue isn’t the lack of women, it’s the lack of real diversity of background of the candidates. The lack of women is simply a symptom of that.
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