How to get more women into the House of Representatives
Is March 17 marked in your calendar? I received my voting card in the mail this week. Torn and all, thanks for that, postman. Now I first have to find out if it's still valid, but I'll do that with love. Because do you know what I hope? That we finally manage to vote some diversity into the House of Representatives together. It's about time, right?
I had a discussion with my father last week. He wondered what we were so worried about. Everyone should just treat everyone equally, and that was that. And I think that's noble and beautifully thought out, but unfortunately it doesn't work that way. If a woman gets angry in a debate, she's immediately too angry, while something like that is never said about a man. Add to that that 31 percent of the members of the House of Representatives are women, which is just a poor reflection of our population. In the last count, we had 8.7 million women and 8.5 million men. Do the math.
The AD showed a photo from the RTL debate in 2017, where five party leaders posed for the photo. All in blue suits, almost all over 40 years old, all white, all men. An image in which I do not recognize myself, but also an image that I do not see when I walk into the local Jumbo. And that's why it's time for change.
I always voted for the first woman on the list, but I was doing it wrong. Vote for a Woman explains very clearly how to vote more women, more politicians of color, or more young representatives into the House of Representatives.
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