In her letter (Nov 4), Louise Patricia Sheridan writes that forced quotas are not the way to go to encourage women into politics; and instead welcomes educational opportunities as a way to increase representation.

I REFER to Louise Patricia Sheridan’s letter (November 4) in which she implies that the proposed gender legislation would mean that women are no longer elected on a “level playing field to everyone else”.

IN HER letter of November 4, Louise Patricia Sheridan says proposed changes to increase the number of women candidates “could possibly contribute to the exclusion of an excellent male candidate, so as to include a female of lesser ability”.