You can't send a spokesman to Tout Le Monde en Parle or vet the questions in advance. It's a live TV talk show with a different guest panel every episode.  Every guest can ask every other guest whatever they want. That's why everyone watches - you never know what will be asked.

Gender has nothing to do with some ministers struggling.  Every federal cabinet of any political party will contain some inexperienced ministers because there only ever 130-200 government MPs to fill 30-40 cabinet positions.   I could get a bigger pool of candidates by tacking up a Help Wanted ad on my grocery store's bulletin board.  

Stephen Harper tried to expand the pool of available cabinet ministers by appointing them to the Senate and he was eviscerated for it. That was a shame.  It made sense 150 years ago to restrict cabinet posts to MPs because we were still evolving from colonial to democratic government. It makes no sense anymore -- let the PM choose the best ministers from the entire population!