Well, at the risk of throwing a monkey wrench into things ... I'm going to come right out and say it.
I don't know of hardly any women supporting Mulcair outside of Quebec. I know one who is working on his campaign staff, who went there because she was offered money. In my circle (it's pretty wide across the country) no women are supporting him. They are mainly supporting Dewar, Nash and Saganash. And some are supporting Topp.
Is it just me? Is there a different experience in other parts of the country? That campaign just seems to attract a lot of very type A and/or instrumental men.
Because women from Quebec somehow don't count?
Good question. A number of his endorsers from the Quebec caucus are women. Apart from that I don't have a feel for who is supporting whom in Quebec, and in fact don't know the membership there very well, except a little bit in western Quebec, so I'm not able to form a good judgement there.