Men in general are far better leaders than women if not emasculated like many in the Labour/Greens/Liberals. Occasionally you get a really good woman leader like Thatcher. Simply an inconvenient truth.

“ …. men account for 99.9 per cent of combat deaths, 94 per cent of workplace deaths, 76 per cent of homicide victims, 75 per cent of successful suicides, 71 per cent of homelessness….”.

100% of adults who die during child birth are WOMEN.

Bet the boys won't be putting up their hands for some of that.

And your point is ttbn?

BTW in the majority of wars non-combatant deaths are great than those of combatants.

WWII estimated number killed 70 million 60-67% non-combatants. many being female.

//Let the decision on the gender mix in Parliament be neither on gender nor merit, let the voters decide whom they want; as I've said before all that is needed is for the parties to put forward a male and a female candidate for each contested seat.//

Disenfranchises minor parties; many of them can't even find one candidate to run in a seat.

For some reason this thread seems to have taken unnecessary detour by way of gender theory, when the original post seems to have been about who will be the best candidate for the seat of Wentworth.

As I understand it the candidate standing for the Science Party is a woman. But the reason she gets my support is because she stands for the Science Party, and lord knows the parliament could do with a few more nerds. I'd still support her if she was a bloke. Seems to me that the policies she represents are more concern than the contents of her codpiece, but maybe I'm just weird.

ttbn, you are making plenty of anti-female claims there. As foxy asked, where are your links for proof of what you claim? Otherwise no one will believe you.

Paul,

Just as an aside, I had an uncle who went through hell on each of the three occasions that his wife was pregnant.
He experienced morning sickness etc., and my auntie breezed through; she reckoned that she would have had more children but he suffered enough!

During the birth process, he was sedated as he suffered some pain.
Not surprisingly they were a close and devoted couple.

Yes, runner. The truth is very inconvenient for some people here.