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Why are there so few women MPs? New research shows how parties discriminate against women candidates

  • Written by Ferran Martinez i Coma, Senior Lecturer in Political Science, Griffith University

Australian women have long been under-represented in parliament. Although our country was the first in the world to give women the right to stand for election, we currently rank 56th in the world for female representation, just behind Uzbekistan, Zimbabwe, Germany and Suriname.

By comparison, New Zealand is sixth.

So why, in 2021, do we have a...

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