“Stella Mizak, an 18-year-old business student, says she was shocked by what she heard while door-knocking with Conservative party candidates in April’s federal election. She heard it over and over from homeowners, she said: “I can’t believe you’re supporting a party that wants to take your rights away.” It’s perplexing, she sighs: A woman being told she’s not a feminist because she’s seen to be “voting away my rights” by voting Conservative.
“I think all women should have the right to choose what life they want for themselves,” Stella says, “and being told that you have to vote Liberal, you have to think this way to be a woman, I think that’s the opposite of what feminism is, and I think the Liberals are actually undermining what feminism is.””
“Hundreds of new members have been added to the club’s roster, which now has a female membership of about 30 per cent, reports Seniru, a 22-year-old software engineering grad.
Seniru and Stella are acutely aware that political parties of the right are becoming increasingly male-dominated, and parties of the left increasingly female-dominated”
