Reply #20: Because around the world (according to UN report from August 2008) gender parity in government

[Captain_Nemo]

gender parity in government makes women's lives better. Women bring different things to the table.
From that report "Who Answers to Women"

" A large-scale
survey of members of parliament undertaken
by the Inter-Parliamentary Union recently
found that over 90 per cent of respondents
agreed that women bring different views,
perspectives and talents to politics, and an
equally large percentage of male and female
respondents believed that “women give pri-
ority to those issues believed to be women’s
issues.”28 In the words of one member of par-
liament, “It’s the women in politics who put
women’s rights and violence against women
and children on the political agenda.”

http://www.unifem.org/progress/2008/media/POWW08_Report_Full_Text.pdf