By Fiona Hyde for World Irish
It’s a sad reality that a political life seems closed off, exclusive or unfeasible for most women. The boys club needs to become unacceptable and it needs to go.
There is hope. In that admittedly meagre 15% of the Dáil are some excellent role models and trailblazers for women in politics who we must cherish. There is a broad base of support for gender quota implementation.
There are fantastic initiatives such as Women For Election, who work to “inspire and equip women to succeed in politics” with training and support programmes.
We need to realise a lack of women means a lack of true representation of our population, with legislation to match. We need to consistently question the lack of women’s voices in the government chambers as well as in our media. We need to support women. I don’t know about you, but I’d like to see a female Taoiseach in my lifetime.
Who will it be?
Irish Sociology 
Robert said
I’m not sure I quite agree with her. We must ask can men not represent women too?
I think implementing a quota would not achieve truly better representation. Is the problem not that women are not going forward? and then that people are not voting for them? Maybe those issues could be better addressed.