focusing on dialogue and creating effective dialogue

Choosing just one idea out of our many, my group and I really wanted to explore and investigate creating effective dialogue for a scene that could potentially fit in the piece. At this time, I had just pitched my women's rights idea to the rest of my group so it made sense to choose that idea - having already carried out various workshops for the other ideas. We wanted to really focus on a straight drama aspect through the dialogue which helped with creating the dialogue to more of a professional standard. We realized that with the whole women's right idea being already complex, we needed quality dialogue that not only would navigate effectively a clear story and purpose to our dialogue, but enhance the character relationships and overall delivery both in context and content of the scene.
The content of the scene was an argument between a female major of an all-male squadran force in the British Army, and the UK defense secretary. We found an article online The Guardian that linked very much to our Women's Rights idea. It was a debate between UK defense secretary, Micheal Fallon, and Major Judith Webb, the first women to command an all-male field force squadron in the British army, anout women being allowed to apply for infantry roles to fight on the front-line. Ironically, it is Michael who wants allow this, whereas Judith states that Women are just not physically strong enough. My idea was that this could fit in very nicely with the idea in the sense that at the end of the scene, Michael would win the argument and a woman would be put on the frontline.
In order to get a strong sense of realism to the dialogue, using some quotes from this article from what was actually said between the two characters was a very popular idea - along with our own ideas and twists to determine the flow and layout of the conversation.