Prime Minister Mark Rutte recently defended the low percentage of female ministers in the new Dutch cabinet by saying: ‘I would have liked to have more. But in the end, we’re going for the best people’. Victoria Budson (Women and Public Policy Program, Harvard Kennedy School of Government) argues in her lecture at ARC-GS, titled ‘Who is designing your future? Why and how we need to elect women at all levels of government’, that going for the best people actually means putting more women in government.