We provide evidence that observed gender differences with respect to political representation of the national majority of voters (made up of men and women) may be reduced to an ideological left-right dimension. Thus, female and male representatives adhere equally close to the majority's preferences if party affiliations are taken into account.
If this result is also valid for other countries, how would you evaluate female quotas in parliaments? How may political representation of specific groups be achieved?
Article Politicians and Preferences of the Voter Majority: Does Gender Matter?
It matters as long as women representing society have a gender education and gender mentality. If women playing in the political arena have still patriarchal mentality , we are in trouble!
Political representation of the voter majority reflects general population attitudes to gender. Before women got the right to vote as autonomously thinking beings, rape and pillage was a means to reproduction (1) and humans have since then become a totally different lifeform in terms of psychological sublimation. So yes, it does matter. If we do not have women in political power it goes to show that the society that prevents them from doing so is based on gregariousness through male hominid primate aggression.
(1) The Dark Side Of Man (Helix Books) – April 4, 2000, an eye opener by Michael Ghiglieri http://www.amazon.com/The-Dark-Side-Helix-Books/dp/0738203157
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