The party's state council has voted in favour of changing its constitution, which until now has only ever referred to individuals as 'he' or 'him'. The council has also selected Ben Hood to fill a vacancy in the upper house, which is controversial in some parts of the party, given only seven of its 24 parliamentary members are women.
abc.net.au/news/sa-liberal-party-votes-to-recognise-women-in-constitution/102022144The South Australian Liberal Party's constitution will recognise women for the first time, with amendments passed at a state council meeting to include female pronouns in the document.
"Research in other areas suggest that the kind of language that's used can make a really big difference in the way cases are decided," she said. But Professor Kulik said on top of policy purposes, there was also a signalling purpose in making the change."One of the positive things about using he/she is it sends a very strong signal to women as a specific demographic group that the constitution applies to them."
"We are increasingly recognising that gender isn't binary and so there are groups of people that kind of gendered language might also exclude," she said.
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