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During the suffragette revolt of 1913 i[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner's jury. in the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the coupled vote. the representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.
-George Bernard Shaw
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During The Suffragette Revolt Of 1913 I[urged]

George Bernard Shaw
During the suffragette revolt of 1913 i[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner's jury. in the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the coupled vote. the representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.
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