ABSTRACT
If the advancement of women is not served by non-partisan elections any more than it is by major parties, the translation to the House of Commons of a woman candidate for a minor Scottish party is an appropriate cue to turn our attention to another kind of variation in the range of selectors which might be supposed to advantage female recruitment. This is the intervention in a competitive electoral system of minor parties which do not appear to be derived from the established hierarchy among men and may even be, to a greater or lesser extent, the institutionalisation of protest against it.
