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Growing threats faced by women candidates undermine our democracy

By Inessa De Angelis, PhD Student, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

This scholar has found that 86 per cent of replies to tweets sent to women MPs contained some form of harassment. This is a clear threat to women’s participation in politics.

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