You're going to have to quote it directly because there is literally no quota mentioned in the article. It literally just says it's hit a 50/50 split based on MPs being elected in, there is no quota system in place saying it had to be so.

To spell it out, a quota would be if there was a law saying 50% of Parliament must be female. There is no such thing.

The most recent woman has been sworn is after a male candidate resigned, and she won the by-election for the seat he left vacant.

There are no seats only women are allowed to run in. They all got in on merit.

Parliament is 50/50 male and female. Both genders ran and this was the fully democratic result.

3 of our last 4 Prime Ministers have been women, and our current Deputy PM is gay. Still no quota there either.

What quotas are you referring to that are supposedly in play in this instance? Our Parliament doesn't have a gender quota

Sorry, are you under the impression that there are women only electorates or something? This is just part of a steady increase since the 70s.

Why is it forced? All these people have been democratically elected

This is literally what has happened? Is it that unbelievable 50% of Parliament is female based on merit??

We don't have female only short lists.

Shamefully it says a lot about other countries attitudes that people are assuming it's the case, or that there is some kind of quota here.

Some parties do obviously have diversity targets within the party lists, but there are no seats "only women" can run in.