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Dear Editor – History shows us that getting women elected to Parliament is extremely difficult. A number of suggestions have been made to remedy that including having seats in Parliament reserved for women.
That would, of course, require amendments to the law. Parliament makes the law and we all know which gender dominates that body.
The solution is simple, at least on paper. If a female candidate stood for election in a constituency and all the women registered to vote in that constituency actually voted for the woman she would win as the men’s vote would be split among the male candidates.
The fact that has not happened suggests that most female voters don’t support female candidates.
Why is that?
Andrew Radclyffe
Honiara.
