That fact that special interest groups like AWARE can influence parliament is a sign of the rot that's taken place in Spore. Now men & lesser mortals have to worry about parliament passing un-equal laws.
If there's more opposition in parliament, the PAP wouldn't be allowed to pass these half bake laws like the Womens Charter.
A very simple solution for all Sporeans is to just vote more opposition in more into parliament. Since Sporeans are too busy with their career they need to support the opposition & let them fight for Sporeans rights.
To all Sporeans men & female, vote for MORE OPPOSITION if you want to prevent the losses of taxpayers monry, foreginers packing the trains, increasing prices of public transport, inreasing utility prices,.....
That is not correct. Pressure groups existed across political parties. Examples of them are women's rights, homosexual rights, gun rights, abortion rights, death penalty rights, etc. These are very specialized groups. For one that occurred, an opposing force will develop. Thus you can see gun rights groups lobbying at one end of the park and anti-gun rights groups at the other end.
To counter the women rights group, there must be a men rights group. However unlike women groups, men groups are not sustainable. In all these years since 1966, have you ever seen a successful men rights group? Ironically AWARE has a male group under its wing. Why do you think this is the case?
Neither will the oppositions do anything about it. It is very likely they will pander to the women rights group too for their votes and support. Thus a vote for them will not change anything.
Neither will pressure groups support opposition parties unless they are viable and likely to come into power in the next election. In which case they will expect the favour to be returned.
To control the pressure groups, there is the NMP scheme. Look at the composition and you can guess who are the supporters of women rights, gay rights, etc. These schemes allow them a say in Parliament and at the right time, concessions will be made to them.
What is needed are male group of sufficient strength and purpose that the political party will take notice and want to engage in dialogue with you. Without this, the men just have to take whatever pro-women policies Vivian dished out.
Voting for the opposition will not help in this regard.