In my opinion women's participation will be favoured if there is legislation to have a minimum number of women representatives in Council. On a personal level I have made an effort to increase female participation through submitting a proposal to my political party in which I stressed that a policy be drafted that provides at least 30 per cent representation of women in the governance of cities and even in parliament . My intention is to submit the same proposal to other leading political parties and to bring them to a common consensus. I think it is important that women should take an active role in the governance of cities, as women easily understand the socio -economic issues of house wives and the expense of running households. When women are in positions where they are responsible for ruling the cities and the country, immediate steps can be taken to redeem economic burdens.
Women are concerned with child abuse and can take immediate steps to work against social misdeeds.
There should be a launch of awareness and capacity building programmes to convince women of the importance of their participation in politics. Women should also be motivated and encouraged to come forward and offer suggestions to solve problems in society. If women are better represented and more powerful, they would be able to voice their concerns more effectively. Over the past ten years there seems to have been very little change in peoples perceptions of women in politics, as this is not really an issue. In Sri Lanka the focus is more on party politics rather than gender.