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Brighton Short Breaks considers Brighton and Hove demonstrating its as the most Right On city in the UK this week with the fact that it is the first a parliamentary election has realized an all-female listing of candidates . 20 years after Mrs Thatcher broke political conventions by being elected the first ever female Prime Minister the charge that the lobbies of Westminster are still a male dominated ring just as obstreperously as ever! So, Brighton and Hove’s whole female short list of Parliamentary prospects affords some encouragement to a potential future switch of ground in the gender equaliser in the political power arena . Being quoted in The Argus , Fawcett Society chief executive Ceri Goddard said: “If all the candidates are women that is cause for celebration but also concern that it has taken until 2009, whereas all-male elections are still the norm. “The voters if Brighton can be pleased that whom ever they elect they will be a step closer to closing the gender gap in parliament where currently less than 20% of our MP’s are women – less than Iraq, Afghanistan and Rwanda.” ‘Less than Iraq, Afghanistan and Rwanda……… ‘ – personally that particular assertion left me slightly flustered about the state of our policy-making arena and curious as to the grounds for male domination above and beyond the one-time antecedency that gentlemen should have it all their own way – and its a whole Pandoras box of discussion that is nicest left for another place. But my role here today is as – as always – to fly the flag for Brighton and Hove and attest how forward intending and politically alive our population is, and having a ratio of men to women in parliament more representative of the population, is in my opinion, a whole step in the right direction!