20,000 Women
By NickBagley on June 3, 2004 - 11:19pm
My sister-in-law, who is an intelligent and educated woman, has said she is not going to vote in the election because she can't be bothered.
In Blair Wilson's blog, I came across this statistic: "Women make up half of the Canadian population, but only 63 of the 301 members of the House of Commons are women".
Are these two things connected? Are women in general just not interested in politics? If there were more female candidates would more women vote?
Some women are trying to make a difference though - www.youngwomenvote.ca
Maybe if there are any women reading the Politics section of Urban Vancouver, one of them would care to comment...
