I'm the first to admit that I've had it good. I'm white, I was born in 1989 in Toronto and I'm a millennial which means I've been told things like “you can do anything you put your mind to” and “shoot for the moon” for as long as I can remember. All of my peers heard this too. Constantly.In my teens I developed an interest in politics. I started to follow current events and learned the intoxicating power of forming an opinion and defending it. Some of this certainly came from my parents but the vast majority of my education in precocious self-confidence came from Ontario's public school system and society writ large. What my peers and I lacked in humility, we made up for in big thinking. Many of us, male and female, believed we could choose to be Prime Minister. Which isn't to say that many of us wanted to.In the midst of all this, never once did my sex play a role. By the time I'd reached my teens, my peers and I were learning that in contemporary society, gender is fluid. This is now quite literally codified in Ontario's new sex ed curriculum. Gender normativism was considered backward when I was a kid and not self-identifying as a feminist was downright shameful. Virtually everyone's mom worked outside of the home and the girls were performing better in school than the boys were. I learned as I grew older that being female would actually give me a leg up, if I chose to embrace it. Want to be a pundit on TV? Just remind producers of the criticism they face every time they happen to book an all-male panel. Want to run for office? Party organizers will salivate over the slightest expression of interest from a young woman.This is why I was so taken aback when I stumbled upon Equal Voice's multi-partisan “Daughters of the Vote” initiative. Had I time traveled back to 1952? I had not. Rather, Equal Voice seems to have been stuck there for the last couple generations. Daughters of the Vote is meant to bring young women aged 18-23 to Parliament to sit where they are not welcome, in defiance of sexism and in defence of gender equality. I don't know a lot of school age girls but I would imagine they would be shocked, as I am, to learn that Parliament is not for them and that in order to get there, they need to have a spot saved. I can't even imagine how gender quotas sound to a non-gender conforming child who has been taught, for good reason, that they do not need to feel forced to conform to the traditional categories of male or female.Privilege is real and we should work against it. Canada needs organizations that will reach out to people less likely to run for office and encourage them to do so. Where there remain barriers to entry to the political system, we should remove them. Gender is not one of those barriers. Jonathan Kay has argued that we should focus on better class and income representation in Parliament. I tend to agree. There is also an ongoing debate around how hospitable Parliament and Legislatures across the country are to elected officials with young families. This is a conversation we should continue to have. But Equal Voice is at best misguided and at worst offensive when they present these issues as ones which concern only mothers and not fathers.There was a time when women in Canada could not vote. Many generations of women were confronted with institutional sexism which they fought against and for this, we should be forever grateful. Fortunately, times have changed. In Canada, there are still some who do not have access to the political establishment. Women continue to be oppressed around the world. Against these injustices we must continue to fight.Today's kids though, are ten steps ahead of Equal Voice on gender equality. And that's a good thing.Ginny Movat is a consultant at Crestview Strategy. Follow her on Twitter at @GinnyMovat.