We believe that any woman who wants to serve in public life and pursue elected office absolutely deserves a fair shot at it, just as with their male counterparts. We don't have a lens in terms of issues or ideology; we're really about representation. This is a democracy. Unfortunately, we've suffered for centuries now, some 151 years, from lopsided representation, and we believe women are critical to every single political party and political mechanism that exists.
We can't fulfill our mandate without really believing that women get to decide who they want to run for and what their life experience and values suggest, what that expresses itself as in terms of a party affiliation.
What we also know about a lot of women, believe it or not, is that they don't actually come in with a strong partisan identity. When they're considering running, many women who have never been connected to formal political spaces are actually in huge internal debates about where they land, because of, I think, how women are less connected to formal political spaces. Even at an early age, even at a student government level, we see that women are often making really tough choices and they could go a number of different ways, depending on the party leader and what's happening within whatever jurisdiction they're thinking of running.