ABSTRACT
The object of Part 1 was to demonstrate the rules governing political recruitment in male-dominated societies and their implications for women. The conclusion was that the grounding of the public sphere in male values, combined with women’s invariable socioeconomic out-group status in the world of men, inexorably limit women’s access to elites: in other words, there is an integral connection between the general condition of women and their representation in politics. Whether the focus was on major party, non-partisan or minor party recruitment the implication was the same: that for women to enter competitive politics on equal terms with men would require either a revolution in the distribution of socio-economic resources which gave women the same profile of attributes as men, or else a revolution in the way that values are ordered in the dominant culture.
