Will women lose when O'Farrell wins?

Their state parliamentary representative is Verity Firth, and their Premier is Kristina Keneally. Or course their State Governor is Marie Bashir.

Their federal member is Tanya Plibersek and their Prime Minister is Julia Gillard. Their Governor-General is Quentin Bryce and their sovereign is Queen Elizabeth II.

You go girls!

But will Barry O'Farrell and the famously conservative Christian Right faction of the NSW Liberals be as interested in the advancement of women as its Labor party foes?

Well if you look at the numbers of women he has chosen to help him run for government things don't look good.

Only one fifth of current Liberal MPs are women, compared to one third for Labor.

And only one fifth of Coalition candidates in the upcoming March 26 poll are female, compared to over a quarter for Labor.

But while women make up less than a third of the Coalition's shadow ministry, they do hold a number of prominent portfolios.

This includes transport, held by Gladys Berejiklian, and the deputy leadership and shadow health portfolio held by Jillian Skinner.

However over a third of the Labor ministry are women.

Women hold seven of 20 positions, including the most senior roles of Premier, Deputy Premier and Ministers of Health and Education.

But what about the real powerbrokers within the Liberals? What is their attitude to women?