Crikey.

See also: 'cool girl'.

“Honorary blokes” pretty much sums up any ladder-pulling IGM;FY women in power. Among the same crowd are those who think of themselves as “honorary millionaires” and “honorary whites”.

Particularly interesting is [[http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/empire-showrunner-ilene-chaiken-tv-diversity-1201634418/|this Q&A with Empire…

Except that currently if you have a vagina, or identify as female, you can't be anything you want. Hence the quota, which seeks to counteract myriad forms of gender-discrimination by holding a proportionate number of places for women. Yes, it's rather a…

Being one of two things is further along the road to being one of many things than being sub of one thing. But…

LOL. And after the last 48 hours, I needed that.

Seriously though, it took me about a year of Green Party membership before I was comfy with it. But it's not just the…

Here's the somewhat tame version I wrote for…

Geena Davis Institute for Gender In Media found that, in crowd scenes, women tend to comprise about 17 percent of any given crowd. She's argued, based on outside data and her own interpretations, that this imbalance relates to and reinforces the way men perceive the actual number…

I remember that, back when it was better put together than the free community newspaper put out by our local real estate agents. It scares me that Key has brought NZ parliament down to a level…

No, you weren't. You will be strongly and ably disagreed with, but I accept that you're saying what you say in good faith.

Just watch the "provocative" doesn't get away on you :-)

Brilliant. Hopefully less men might also lead to a better representation of the diversity of men. A little leeway for X wouldn’t hurt.

It could be worse, what if she was also more competent?

I too am worried that I might not become a Cabinet Minister because some grasping women who…

Here's the thing. Without a quota we've ended up with a male dominated cabinet and parliament where an alarming number of important jobs are being handed to white males of dubious talent.

By contrast Canada has while implementing a quota actually got talent in…

I don't think you've adequately established why gender should be a basis for quotas. We have a geographic quota, which is dumb, but historically made sense due to the past costs of transportation and communications. One impact…

The way the Green Party does it is that you can't go over a maximum of 60% for either gender.

;-)

Also because the skills to manage taking care of ourselves are not evenly…

This, especially seeing this week's nasty immaturity.

Which the over-excitable "oy noes, the end of meritocracy" Canadian punditry tended to forget. It wasn't…

At least we got 3 posts before we got trolled.

I'd just point out another factor in the recent Canadian cabinet, almost every position is filled by an actual expert in that field. Strange that even with the huge limitation (not) of choosing half women, the roles…

That's how it functions, both in the Green Party, and Trudeau's cabinet. It's not 'there must be at least X% of women', it's 'there must be at least X% of women, and of men'.

I sometimes argue that…

We can expect that every post might be filled by a woman about 50% of the time. That is what gender equality means.

Firstly, our partitioning for MPs is partially geographic, and partly issues based. If women feel strongly enough that the male-dominated parties don’t represent their views, then start a Women’s Party.
Ditch the electorate seats entirely, as the intertubes has demolished distance, throw out the threshold, and we might…

As I snark-tweeted at the time, I'm sure the fifteen women with ministerial warrants in Canada were appointed entirely on merit. The…

I see what you did there...

Back in the 1990s I heard Marilyn Waring give a public lecture on why Parliament should have a gender quota: otherwise it wasn’t representative democracy. She was seeking to have the matter examined under Human Rights legislation. Unfortunately I can’t find an online reference to which piece of…