Representation change involves specific actions to secure women's continued and enhanced access to the legislature. Representation change also includes actions in parliament that are designed to place women in important parliamentary positions and to secure their presence in government. It must also include changes in political parties that bring more women to legislatures. Parliamentary women often use the power their representative status gives them to support improving political opportunities for women in their parties. Similarly, parliamentary women may organize to support women for higher office.
Parliaments constitute a crucial pool of recruitment to higher office.
Representation Securing women's continues and enhanced access to parliament, by encouraging women candidates, changing electoral and campaigning laws, and promoting sex equality legislation. Discourse change involves changes both inside and outside of parliament. Not only should efforts be made to alter parliamentary language so that women's perspectives are normalized, it is also necessary to make use of the parliamentary platform to alter public attitudes and to change the discourse of politics so that a political woman becomes as normal a concept as a political man. Four Areas of Change that will Impact on Women's Participation Table 7.