“I am regularly asked by students whether the gender-balanced nature of the membership of the National Assembly makes any real difference to policy outcomes. I think it does, and the example I always cite is the creation of the One Wales agreement in June 2007. Put simply that agreement would not have happened, had the process not been driven by women politicians”.
“In my experience, when the going gets really tough, male politicians have a tendency to retreat to the testosterone-fuelled mountain tops, and shout at each other across the great divide. In contrast, women search relentlessly for the common ground, for the sometimes small piece of shared territory around which a wider jigsaw of agreement can be put together”.
Mark Drakeford, Cynghorydd Arbennig Rhodri Morgan 2000 – 2010, mewn erthygl arbennig i Click on Wales.
Gyda’r Guardian yn trafod y gostyngiad yn y nifer o fenywod sy’n sefyll yn etholiadau’r Cynulliad eleni a Sefydliad Materion Cymreig yn rhagweld y bydd y nifer o Aelodau Cynulliad sy’n fenywod yn gostwng oddeutu 30% wedi’r etholiad, pa ddyfodol sydd i’r wleidyddiaeth newydd mewn gwirionedd?
