If Scott Morrison really wants to introduce gender quotas he’ll have an uphill battle. And not just from the men of the party.
Yesterday Scott Morrison tried to stick a Band-Aid on the Coalition’s increasingly large and well-documented gender problem by raising the prospect of quotas.
Long considered toxic by many Liberals, the prime minister’s support for gender-based quotas was tepid though. He was “open to the idea” but made no firm commitment.
Only a quarter of all Coalition MPs across federal and state parliaments are women. Labor, which has had quotas since 1994, is nearly at parity.
