The commitment of political parties to field an equal number of women and men in the federal elections had never been higher than this year: 45% of women on the electoral lists, totaling 595 women and 729 men. A record!
The access of women to positions of power within political, economic, and institutional realms is a true tightrope walk. Moving along the wire toward gender equality, with significant societal challenges on one side and cultural, structural, and cognitive resistances on the other, requires a great deal of courage and a capacity for self-reflection.