Higher percentages of women running in ‘lost-cause ridings’ underscore parties’ different tactics to handle issue of representation, 

Misleading.  The meaningful qustion is what percentage of women are running in the competitive tidings, not the lost cause riding.  Libs 15-4 men over women.  NDP 11-10 men over women.

So it is only the Libs that have the gender challenge referred to in the article title.