Brownhill: Why Ottawa needs more women around the table

In this municipal election cycle, there’s a lot of talk about women. How many women do we currently have on City Council? How many women are running? How many racialized women are running? How many disabled women are running? How many female candidates actually have a chance of being elected? What should the city’s Women’s Bureau look like to best engage a diversity of women?
The fact that, in 2018, we are still talking about gender representation on council is a sad testament