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  All-women shortlists save Labour from near-total male domination
  
  Party will use female-only lists in choosing 52 parliamentary candidates - after men win 17 out of 18 open contests
  
  Seema Malhotra MP, with Labour leader Ed Miliband, is one of few Labour women who have beaten men to win party
  
  nominations for parliamentary elections. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA
  
  Men dominate the list of newly selected Labour parliamentary candidates in the party's target winnable seats for the 2015
  
  election, wherever the selection has been kept open to men and women.
  
  Since the last election, an astonishing 17 of the 18 nominations in open contests for target seats have been won by men,
  
  figures given to the party's national executive show.
  
  Overall, this trend has been countered by Labour's continued use of all-women shortlists in many constituencies. Since the
  
  election, all-women shortlists have been drawn up in 22 target seats. So, of the total of 40 target seats where candidates have
  
  been chosen so far, 23 have gone to women - but only thanks to the use of positive discrimination

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