This is a PM who admires China's "basic dictatorship" as the best governmental system in the world,  who considers Castro, a man who imprisoned thousands of political prisoners,  a family friend,  attempted to muzzle the Opposition in Parliament and rig the voting system in a way that would have made future elections a slam dunk.  There is no reasonable person capable of believing that the Groupthink these people engage in is anything less than the nightmare Orwell predicted and related decades ago.  So when they say this is 2016 and they want more women in Parliament, one has to remember that it is only if the women do what they're told, and think just exactly the right way...their way... like in the 1940s.  These elites are the very definition of regressive and dogmatic.