As per usual, you are wrong.
In 2012, the Irish Parliament adopted a law obliging political parties to select at least 30% women candidates and 30% men candidates to contest general elections. The threshold rises to 40% from 2023 onwards. If the quota is not met, political parties will lose 50% of the State funding they receive on an annual basis to run their operations.
https://www.dfa.ie/irish-consulate/sydney/news-and-events/latest-news/irelands-experience-of-parliamentary-gender-quotas.html
Do you ever notice it's the thick and lazy people who want to remove competence as the requirement for getting hired?
I work all the time, I study all the time, and as a result I am a highly desirable employee.
Wouldn't it be great if I could just watch YouTube all day and get hired because I was born with a vagina?
Really, you need to understand the details. A quota for candidates is NOT a quota for the House. There is no quota for the gender of the candidates that sit in the house. There IS a quota for the candidates that political parties put forward, if they want to retain their funding. It doesn't apply to independent candidates.
That's the kind of detail I'd expect any international comparative report to cover. But it didn't - which really doesn't engender much trust in the quality of the remainder of the report.
That's a complete strawman.
Table 18 from https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/womens-databook/2020/home.htm tells a similar story, of women out-earning men in only a tiny number of occupations.
Could you post a link to the specific data that you're referring to, rather than a selective screenshot please, so we can see the full context. Here's the full context of the 2019 data (my bolding).
Earnings
In 2019, women who worked full time in wage and salary jobs had median usual weekly earnings of $821, which represented 82 percent of men’s median weekly earnings ($1,007). Among women, earnings were higher for Asians ($1,025) than for Whites ($840), Blacks ($704), and Hispanics ($642). Women-to-men earnings ratios were higher for Blacks (92 percent) and Hispanics (86 percent) than for Whites (81 percent) and Asians (77 percent). (See table 16; note that the comparisons of earnings in this report are on a broad level and do not control for many factors, like occupation, that may be important in explaining earnings differences.)
To be honest, I'm not sure why we're arguing over US figures, which have little relevance to Ireland.
You'll say anything to avoid admitting you're wrong.
I should not be talking to someone like you.
No,you shouldn't be talking to me if you want a discussion based on facts. There is no gender quota in our national parliament. That's a fact.
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