Oz nodded seriously in response to the mention of Orpington and Flint, both of whom were formidable enough figures in the political zeitgeist that he had absolutely no interest in challenging them. (One might note, of course, that neither of them had made the decision to grant women the right to vote while they were in office — one might, but Oz wouldn't, because his whole directive at the moment was to be as minimally controversial as possible and this was certainly not the way to go about it).

"And we have female members of the Wizengamot right now," he added. It probably sounded as though he was agreeing with her, but it was still non-committal enough to pass the dogwhistle conservative test, he thought. He wasn't explicitly stating that the female members of the Wizengamot were any good, or that they ought to be there, though he was sure in terms of experience and context any of them were more qualified to make political decisions than he was.

"Some women do vote," he pointed out. None of the women in his life did, but he'd looked this up when the issue had first reared its ugly head and he knew there was a long list of requirements which, if all satisfied, allowed some women to cast votes. Probably an inconsequential number of them in the grand scheme of things, but that didn't stop some circles from complaining that the female vote had unfairly swayed an election one way or another. "So it's certainly not as though gender alone is a disqualifying factor."

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