Athos
Well-Known Member
... there’s a mass of academic evidence that the huge increase in female representation in Parliament (especially post 1997) meant that women’s issues were increasingly looked at and acted on. There’s also a much wider body of work going back to the 1960s on “descriptive representation” and it’s benefits (and downsides).
Do you have any links, please? I'm particularly interested in anything that casts light on whether the gains for women as a whole have been in absolute terms, or relative to men.