The Liberal Party: caught in the gender trap?

While Australians are worried about actual problems like rising unemployment, the Liberal Party is worried about gender imbalance among its MPs.

It’s hard to believe that Australia’s conservative party would allow itself to be defined by progressive values, especially when progressives cannot even define the word “woman”.

But Liberals are allowing themselves to become convinced that anything less than 50 per cent of their MPs being women is inherently bad.  

Nobody ever gives cogent reasons as to why there should be an equal number of men and women in parliament. That women comprise half the population is a statistical fact, but not an argument for the composition of parliament.

And the argument that “we need more…