This APAHM, we're celebrating AAPI women leaders and their representation gains! More in the latest weekend reading on women's representation:
that explores the proportional voting systems that are electing more women to office in Australia and in other countries around the globe:
A look at well-established democracies that are more successful at achieving gender parity provide some guidance about what would transform the political landscape. Leaders in electing women include Australia , New Zealand , Sweden , Finland , Spain , Netherlands and Germany .
But the research of experts like RepresentWomen and the late Professor Wilma Rule have shown that the biggest reason for female candidates’ success in these democracies is the use of “fair representation” electoral systems . One PR method combines ranked-choice voting and multi-seat districts, where political parties win seats in proportion to their vote share. If like-minded voters have twenty percent of the vote in a ten-seat district, its candidates win two of ten seats, instead of none; forty percent wins four seats, and sixty percent wins six seats….
How important is the electoral system to women’s success? A real-world test is provided by nations that use both fair representation electoral methods and US-style one-seat, “winner-take-all” districts to elect their national legislatures. We can observe the same voters, the same attitudes, expressing themselves through two different electoral methods.
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