What I have found—and it hasn't changed much since I did a paper on that very topic back in the early 2000s—is that women are the envelope stuffers, the bakers, and the organizers of the events. When it comes to policy decisions, in a lot of the riding associations that I have seen, there are some women but predominantly it is men.
I believe that is slowly changing. I think that the more women get elected and end their careers, whether they want to or not, the more they will circle back, bring the next generation up with them, and really be able to affect change within the grassroots system, which one hopes will translate to the political system as well.