{"id":1098,"date":"2012-10-21T17:48:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T21:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:08:18","slug":"binders-not-so-full-of-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/2012\/binders-not-so-full-of-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Binders not so full of women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Binders not so full of women\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>&#8220;Stunning paternalistic,&#8221; writes MPM faculty member Jennifer Robson in <em>iPolitics <\/em>on Mitt Romney&#8217;s &#8220;binders full of women&#8221; remark in the second U.S. presidential debate.&nbsp; However, she argues that a debate on gender equity in Canadian politics is long overdue.&nbsp; In the last federal election, she points out, 29% of candidates were women but only 16% of them were elected.&nbsp; The NDP ran more female candidates but female Conservative candidates were more likely to be successful.&nbsp; Meanwhile, among 16 senior political offices in Parliament (for example Speaker, party House Leaders and Whips), only&nbsp;four (or 25%) are held by women. &nbsp;&#8220;Liberals have never, not once, had a female House Leader.&#8221;&nbsp; And among political staff, there are only 11 female chiefs of staff to federal ministers, or 27 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full article at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipolitics.ca\/2012\/10\/21\/jennifer-robson-romneys-position-on-gender-inclusion-stunningly-paternalistic\/\">http:\/\/www.ipolitics.ca\/2012\/10\/21\/jennifer-robson-romneys-position-on-gender-inclusion-stunningly-paternalistic\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Stunning paternalistic,&#8221; writes MPM faculty member Jennifer Robson in iPolitics on Mitt Romney&#8217;s &#8220;binders full of women&#8221; remark in the second U.S. presidential debate.&nbsp; However, she argues that a debate on gender equity in Canadian politics is long overdue.&nbsp; In the last federal election, she points out, 29% of candidates were women but only 16% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/1099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}