Equality hasn't happened naturally in the last 100 years, the only way forward is to mandate it is the Constitution. Women who will advocate for feminist issues We must accept that not all women elected will support a feminist or progressive line on political issues and getting equal numbers of women in all our parliaments does not mean feminist policies overnight. But it will mean representative democracy and we can work on ensuring there is a selection of feminist women among those elected. Some might be the sisters, mothers and wives of those men already there but strong feminists are involved in all the parties and they will work to ensure that many of the women elected have equality of women at heart. Parliament is where the changes are made It is worth campaigning for equality in our parliaments because that is where women must be in order to ensure that all decisions effecting our society are made from women's as well as men's perspectives.
Women have a totally different experience of life to men.
Their perspectives are different and the way they operate is different. They are over half the population so why shouldn't they be there in equal numbers to men. While we may not be able to exactly identify what changes equal numbers of women would make to our parliamentary institutions, we know that they would be changed forever. We know that the mere presence of women would change the culture and women's perspectives would flow over into all the other areas of decision making. In India feminist women have been lobbying for equal representation of women in parliaments as a constitutional guarantee since the 1980s.