Women Candidates Rule the Roost In Brighton
Brighton Short Breaks sees Brighton and Hove demoing its as the most Right On community in the UK this week with the fact that it is the first occurance a parliamentary election has assembled an all-female list of nominees.
20 years after Mrs Thatcher broke governmental territory by being elected the first ever woman Prime Minister the complaint that the vestibules of Westminster are still a male dominated hall ring just as forte as ever! So, Brighton and Hove’s full female short list of Parliamentary candidates offers some encouragement to a future future change of soil in the gender equaliser in the political power world.
Being cited in The Argus , Fawcett Society chief executive Ceri Goddard said: “If all the candidates are women that is cause for celebration but also concern that it has taken until 2009, whereas all-male elections are still the norm.
“The voters if Brighton can be pleased that whom ever they elect they will be a step closer to closing the gender gap in parliament where currently less than 20% of our MP’s are women – less than Iraq, Afghanistan and Rwanda.”
‘Less than Iraq, Afghanistan and Rwanda……… ‘ – personally that peculiar statement left me slightly embarrassed about the state of our policy-making domain and questioning as to the grounds for male supremacy above and beyond the foregone antecedency that gentlemen should have it entirely their own way – and its a whole Pandoras box of debate that is safest left for a different place .
But my resolve here now is as – as always – to fly the flag for Brighton and Hove and exhibit how ahead intending and politically sensible our population is, and having a ratio of men to women in parliament more symbolic of the population, is in my notion, a pace in the right direction!
