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A female Taoiseach leading the country?

April 17, 2013 at 1:17 pm · Filed under Inequalities ·Tagged , , , , , , , , , ,

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?

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Gender inequality ‘rife’ in Ireland

November 28, 2011 at 9:17 pm · Filed under Gender ·Tagged , , , , , , , , , , ,

Women in Ireland work less, earn less, live longer and are more likely to suffer depression than men, a report has revealed.

Men, on the other hand, are over-represented in the Dail and Seanad, are more likely to be unemployed and suffer from higher rates of alcoholism, schizophrenia and criminality.

The report, by the Central Statistics Office (CSO), also revealed that the rate of men who had left school early was almost twice that of women.

In 2006, women were on average living until 81-and-a-half, almost five years longer than men. Men were revealed as being more likely to die younger with 15 to 24-year-olds at particularly high risk from suicide and car accidents.

Read more at the Independent.

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