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What Women Can DoIdentify women you know for whom you would vote and encourage them tothink about it.If you are a member of a political party, raise the issue of fair representationof the sexes among the candidates. Approach the local riding association to askwhat is their plan to increase women’s representation. Read an analysis of whatneeds to happen: Commission on Legislative Democracy, www.gnb.ca keywordDemocracy.Invite current or former female politicians to speak in your region about thechallenges and the importance of women’s participation in politics.Next time you have a serious or “policy” discussion with friends, workmates,parents or club members, etc., bring up the subject of how more women couldbe encouraged to run. Invite a local politician to meet with your group for anexchange of ideas.Contact your MLA or visit the government website (keyword: ABC) for alist of vacancies on government appointed agencies and boards and encouragewomen you know to put their names forward.Become active in a political party. Get nominated to committees and haveyour say in the processes.Do:- The Getting to the Gate online campaign school developed by Equal VoiceCanada, with modules on Why Politics? When to Run? How To? http://gettingtothegate.comListen:Recent presentations given in New Brunswick on the topic: wttp://gettingtothegate.coa, click on “Listen Up”:- Women In Politics: Media, Parties And Voters - Listen to the presentation byDr. Joanna Everitt (Feb. 2010), professor of politics and Dean of Arts at UNBSJ,whose research examines voting behaviour in Canadian elections, genderdifferences in public opinion and the impact of media coverage. (72 minutes.Also view the Powerpoint used during the presentation.)26Women in the House
- Women in Politics - What is needed for more women to enter politics (June2009), with Marcelle Mersereau (former Minister, municipal councillor andpresident of N.B. Liberal Party) and Anne-Marie Gammon (Bathurst councillorand community activist). 85 minutes, in both English & French.View:- Menocracy - A 2009documentary on women andpolitics, by New Brunswickfilmmaker Gretchen Kelbaugh.“Something’s rotten in the state ofdemocracy”.www.menocracy.ca/Read:- Dare to Get Involved… InPolitics – A booklet by FemmesÉquité Atlantique. 2008. http://featl.ca/assets/files/Oser-engfinal.pdf- Elections NB’s reports forvoters, candidates and parties:www.electionsnb.ca- Election Toolkit for Women:The Candidate’s Guide toMunicipal Elections, Federationof Canadian Municipalities,2008, www.fcm.ca//CMFiles/Toolkit%20En1PCD-2182009-9021.pdf ; www.fcm.ca/English/View.asp?mp=1168&x=1290- Votes for Women: A PoliticalGuidebook (Nova Scotia AdvisoryCouncil on the Status of Women,2004), http://women.gov.ns.ca/pubPolitics.asp- Canadian Women VotersCongress, a grassroots andnon-partisan organization thatworks for balanced politicalHOW WOMEN CAN GAINPOSITIONS OF POWER…Voluntary affirmative actionprograms alone aren’t enough to putmore women in positions of power,the leader of the province’s NewDemocratic Party said last night.“Good will doesn’t replace a law todirect change,” Elizabeth Weir told apublic meeting on women and power,organized by the New BrunswickAdvisory Council on the Status ofWomen. She cited the example of herown party... Despite a commitment tovoluntary affirmative action, womenwere always outnumbered on theparty’s national executive. In 1982,the party proposed a change to itsconstitution making it mandatorythat at least 50% of the executivebe made up of women. The policywas adopted the following year atthe party’s national convention.Within a year, that gender equalityon the party’s executive becamecommonplace. “It just became partof how we do business. But it wasan object lesson in the need forinstitutional change.”- Excerpted from Meeting DiscussesHow Women Can Gain Positions ofPower, Elizabeth Hanton, Daily Gleaner,21 March 1991.A Reader on New Brunswick Women in the Legislative Assembly 27
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