Low number of women in federal politics the real ‘democratic deficit’

Women make up 52 per cent of the population but only 21 per cent of the House of Commons. What's up with that?

When 55-year-old former deputy prime minister Sheila Copps entered politics 28 years ago, she thought the struggle for women to get in would be easier a generation later. She was wrong.

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