Abstract- Pakatan rakyat (PR), is a political coalition, consisting of the democratic action party (DAP), parti keadilan rakyat (PKR) and the pan-Malaysia islamich Party (PAS). With the exeptions of PAS, the DAP and PKR parties have initiated a one-youth-wing strategy, to give an equal platform for both young mean and women members to excel. However, based on existing literature,such a novel structural change is merely one of several underlying factors that impinge upon men and women’s participation, as political party members. Nonetheless, PR’s new initiative, gives us an opportuanty to document and study the experiences of these members, within these new youth wings. This paper forms a part of a much larger qualitative study, aimed at comparing the experiences of young men and women, as members of PR. It has been set out to both explore and analyze the differences in experiences, as well as the facilitating factors and constraints, which influence young men and women members within the political parties of PR alliance. For this paper, analysis and discussions are limited to the respondents’ perceptions, regarding their roles, duties, interests and positions, as party members. By using the snowballing method, 27 respondents were invited to take part in a one-to-one, in-depth interview. The analysis showed that a mere structural change of the PR party is not sufficient to encourage women to be active as political members. The perceptions, of the roles and responsibilities, of both young men and women political party respondents, were shaped by various fundamental factors, such as religion, culture and patriarchal cocial norms. Moreover, despite existing literature criticizing the patriarchal nature of the political parties in Malaysia, young men and women, in addition to party leaders, also perceived that woment’s roles and priorities should be at home. The analysis showed more similarities than differences of the perceptions of the young women in PAS, with DAP and PKR. Keywords-young women in politics, political parties, political experiences, political participation, youth in politics