Women only, MP shortlists

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Women only, MP shortlists

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Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman has insisted all-female candidate shortlists are the only way to stop Parliament being "male-dominated".
She said she was "really uncomfortable" with the policy but added that "everything else" had failed.
"We changed the rules so that the shortlists had to be half women - an even bigger row and still nothing changed and it was the male half of the shortlist which got selected. So we were driven to the conclusion that it would have to be women-only shortlists."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29295088

Obviously not good news if you are an aspiring male MP, and has the potential to spread to other professions. But is it the right thing to do? When ethnic minorities are fast tracked into top jobs for pc reasons, we have ended up with some complete incompetents.
Can we afford to exclude people who may be the best person for the job? And is it sexual discrimination?
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