The struggle to erase women continues.
Holyrood‘s new Presiding Officer has been urged to act after the Scottish Parliament removed information about the sex of MSPs from its website.
Kenneth Gibson was told the decision “risks undermining the visibility of women’s representation in public life”.
In the last session of the parliament, users of the website were able to filter MSPs by male or female.
Yes but this is now, when we have realized that female people just don’t matter. Try to keep up.
Two Conservative MSPs have written to Kenneth Gibson asking to explain the thinking behind the change.
In the letter, Meghan Gallacher and Rachael Hamilton said: “As female MSPs, we believe it is important that women continue to be clearly and transparently represented within the Parliament’s official records and public-facing information.
“The removal of female as a distinct category risks undermining the visibility of women’s representation in public life and makes it more difficult to accurately assess progress relating to female participation within Scottish politics.”
Yes, it does, and that’s why they did it. Women must be erased and stifled and ignored.
Dr Kath Murray, of policy collective Murray Blackburn Mackenzie, said the change had the effect of “obscuring” female representation.
For Women Scotland said the only way to measure progress was “to count the number of women elected”.
But the Scottish Parliament won’t be able to hear them. Women, you see – they’re inaudible. Much too loud of course, but nevertheless inaudible.
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