In Women, Power, Politics: The Hidden Story of Canada’s Unfinished Democracy, Sylvia Bashevkin highlights the lack of female presence in Canadian politics (2009:3). She associates this problem to a general social unease with women being put in a position of power, stepping into the public life instead of staying in the private sphere (Bashevkin, 2009: 10-1). Furthermore, she emphasizes the problematic ways in which politician women are represented by the media (Bashevkin, 2009:10-1). In brief, she believes that in Canada, amongst other countries, “women plus power equals discomfort” (Bashevkin, 2009: 11).
Bashevkin considers that the media take an “overwhelming interest” in the lives of politician women (2009: 35). According to her, this invasive
