Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Why girls on the ballot are better
One of my goals for my March column in PrintAction was to raise awareness that Canada lacks the advantages it could gain from proportional representation of women in politics. Note that the Toronto Star’s Katie Daubs has recently climbed on the same bandwagon. Her April-17th article on Canada’s upcoming federal election observes that Halton Riding’s Conservative, Liberal, NDP, and Green Party candidates are all female and that the benefits of this all-girl ballot include greater co-operation among them, more policy discussion, and fewer personal attacks.
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/976140--halton-riding-for-once-gender-imbalance-is-a-welcome-sign?bn=1
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