Here's What Happens When You Put More Women In...

I like the message of this article. Having an equal opportunity between genders results in a better community. In this article, Charlotte Alter only focused on women, as we can tell from reading the title “Here’s What Happens When You Put More Women in Government.” This article made me ask myself, why is there actually more men in the government? Are men more interested in politics than women? Would there be a difference when more women enter the politics? We’ll never know, unless we experience it. However, this article gave me a glimpse of what would it be like when more women are in the government.

I agree with the author’s statement about issues who are considered ‘soft’ (childcare and reproductive rights). These issues are going to be handled seriously by women. Moreover, the author wrote this article because of the recent announcement of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. As mentioned by the author, he declared that half of his Cabinet ministers are female.
I am excited to see the impact of this gender balanced leadership.

After reading the information about Sweden, I was amazed by their policies. According to Alter, “Both parents are entitled to 16 months of paid family leave (to be divided as a couple,) with 13 months of that leave paid at 80% of their income and the rest at a flat …show more content…
Sadly, as stated by the author, their current parliament is the result of the 1994 genocide, where most of the survivors are female. This part of the article is where I question the point of having more women in the government. Alter described that it was women who felt the benefits of the new parliament. Again, I asked myself, was it because most of the population of Rwanda are female? Does it mean that men did not feel any benefits? I felt like this part of the article was saying that having more women than men in the government results in more benefits for

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