Man=Woman - by Z

Yesterday, the members of the new government in Morocco were announced after a long suspense. The late elections of November 25, 2011 were followed by the news of the Justice and Development Party, a moderate Islamist party that could be compared to the Turkish AKP, winning most seats
(about 30%). One should keep in mind that this political change happened during an arguably ongoing Arab Spring that affected Morocco too.  

Naturally, a new government would not satisfy each taste. One main criticism about this new government was the fact that there is only one woman, which leads to the issue of the misrepresentation of women in the government. Well, were women ever well represented in governments? If statistically women are about half of the population, and this applies to the world, then I have never seen in Morocco a government with half women ministers and I don’t think it ever happened in any other country (I didn’t find any data about it). How to tackle this? Impose quotas? Gender and racial quotas have been criticized for their lack of efficiency and I tend to agree with it. For me, true gender equality would be considering a government of 29 men ministers and 1 woman minister as normal as a government of 29 women ministers and one man minister. Would it be possible to have such a scenario in the next elections? As I see the official picture of the new government with a plethora of man suits in dark colors and only one small point of femininity at the back on the right I just want to imagine a picture of 29 women in their colorful suits and caftans and only one man at the back in his dark suit. That would be such a more colorful picture.

For me, true gender equality is when sex is not even seen as a categorization of people.