"We have so many women in the directorship level. Why we don't get them to Canberra or to other state parliaments I don't know,"she said."But it must be just the way we do politics,just the way we pick our leaders. Something in[the] Liberal Party ... there's a bottleneck."
Senator Gichuhi said it was obvious that events since Mr Turnbull's ousting had been extremely damaging for the government,and that the Liberal Party had a problem with women.
"That is a fact. It's open for anybody to see. So if we can start by accepting we have a problem,we address it ... and stop beating up our women,that's all we have to do,"she said.
"Absolutely everything that has been happening since a few weeks ago has been really bad for us as the Liberal Party. There's no hiding it. We are in a low spot ... the only way to go is up."