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Gender quotas: FG proposal defeated

iptba · 2010-03-15 23:48:57

Extract from Irish Times, March 12: Nice to see this. As I've heard some people say, at least part of the motivation may be to get female voters. Normally, discriminating against people might not be seen as a good thing, but it seems if it's against men, many people see that as ok. Of course, other parties seem interested…

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#32 24-03-2010 2:51pm
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The 3 female MEPs for Ireland have come out in favour of implementing gender quotas according to this article.

From offalyexpress.ie

IRELAND'S three female MEPs have come out in support of a quota system to ensure women are fairly represented in politics, despite being previously opposed to the concept.

Nessa Childers, Mairead McGuinness and Marian Harkin said that although a decade ago they believed a legal minimum for the number of women politicians was unnecessary, they have since formed the view that gender quotas are the only way to balance domestic and EU electoral politics. They were speaking following a forum on the issue organised by the European Parliament Office in Dublin.

"If we don't have some proactive measures to push and pull women into politics it will never happen. I'm 50 now, and I don't see any significant change in politics since my twenties, it's still a boys' network," said Fine Gael MEP Mairead McGuinness.

Just three of Ireland's 12 MEPs are women, giving Ireland one of the lowest levels of female representation in the European Parliament. In the Dáil, only 13 per cent of TDs are women, compared to 18 per cent globally.

Labour MEP Nessa Childers encouraged the Irish government to follow the example of more than 100 other countries worldwide and legislate to improve women's political representation.

"Voluntary codes and the light-touch approach just don't work here," she said.

If you can read this, you're too close!

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