Women can get their issues on the agenda

Alison O’Connor is right to advise women to question canvassers and politicians in the forthcoming election on female equality [Opinion, November 20].

She should remind voters, especially women, that the issues she mentions as important to women are likely to receive more attention if more women are elected.

With a much bigger proportion of candidates likely to be women, this election is an opportunity to increase women’s representation from its historically very low level.

It is also an opportunity to make this so-called representative democracy more representative.

A. Leavy

Shielmartin Drive

Sutton

Dublin 13