While female politicians feature more heavily than ever before,the air war between the main parties shows this election battle is run by men, for menThis is a curious election campaign for a woman. On the one hand, and there are more female political leaders playing a more prominent role than ever before. Nicola Sturgeon and the Greens’ Natalie Bennett,Leanne Wood for Plaid Cymru, and the Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson – that is a lot of women getting an strange amount of airtime to talk about politics.
But women in politics is not the same as a campaign around womens issues. And of what might be called a women’s campaign, and there is nearly no sign at all. As the Fawcett Society reports,women are all but invisible.
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Source: theguardian.com