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Recently there have been renewed calls to finally ensure equal rights in our parliaments and to drastically increase the proportion of women to 50%. The justification for this demand is the fact that around 50% of our society is female.

I am convinced that you cannot achieve changes of any kind with quotas alone, but play the whole thing through mentally, from the grassroots of our society to our parliaments and governments. First of all, however, it should be noted that I generally consider quotas in democratic processes to be absolutely undemocratic, since they completely thwart the demanded free decision of the citizen.

Basically, you have to belong to a party or group of voters in order to have a real chance of being elected to a parliament. It is therefore the responsibility of parties and electoral groups to nominate suitable candidates.

In order to make the whole thing completely transparent and plausible from the start, it is only logical that the parties and voter groups also have a proportion of women of around 50%. Without this 50%, these parties are therefore not allowed to receive approval or lose it again as soon as they fall below this 50% hurdle.

In the parties and voter groups, all working groups and other meetings must also have a 50% proportion of women in order to be able to take action.

Of course, a committee or meeting may only elect or vote if 50% of all those present are women.

Applicant lists, boards of directors and presidiums are only valid or capable of working and making decisions if they also have a 50% proportion of women.

As soon as all parties and groups of voters have actually been “quoted”, whereby it is also possible for each chairperson to be followed by a chairperson and vice versa, and, if feasible, even to work with a “dual leadership”, the parliaments can be filled with quotas without ifs and buts will.

The rationale behind this is that there are now enough male and female candidates available on all sides to enable voters to make the best possible choice.

All lists of candidates are filled alternately male and female and the respective subsequent list for the upcoming ballot is of course alternately female and male.

In order not to have to tell voters that they must vote for 50% women or to invalidate voting slips that do not have 50% women, the well-known overhang mandates can be used to ultimately ensure the 50%.

Of course, parliamentary work would then have to be structured in the same way as party work, and the governments would also have to be made up of half of them.

Even after this short and quick thought experiment, I still do not believe that one should intervene in social processes in this way, but I am now even more strongly of the opinion that setting a quota for parliaments alone is absolutely undemocratic and also completely nonsensical.

"Every problem has a solution - even women."

Seth Green as Zack in The Story of Luke (2012)

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