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!
