One-third gender rule a raw deal for women

As we celebrate the constitutional anniversary, I have a quarrel with women leaders. Not a bad one; a little quarrel brings sobriety. I'm persuaded that the one-third gender rule is a progressive idea. However, implementing it through the nomination of women into offices makes them objects of control. What do I mean?

In Deuteronomy 15, Hebrew slaves were supposed to serve their masters for six years and be freed in the seventh—the year of Jubilee. However, the slaves had a choice to make; to leave and self-establish or remain if they were comfortable with their masters. If the slave chose to stay, the master would take a metallic borer and pin their ear on the door, thus making them slaves forever.