Rank Irish political parties on their willingness to discriminate against men/similar

iptba wrote: »

In the last number of years, Ivana Bacik has been prominent and I think she would be quite willing to push for gender quotas/targets and probably all sorts of other things like women-only positions. I believe she was the main person behind the gender quotas/targets for political parties. I get the impression most politicians would be wary of challenging her and her proposals, except on traditional issues like abortion.

Ivana Bacik: 'Gender quotas are necessary to help tackle hidden bias'


https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/ivana-bacik-gender-quotas-are-necessary-to-help-tackle-hidden-bias-37522615.html

The Future of Women's Health

Labour recognises that top-down and male-dominated approaches have had a detrimental effect on women's right to health in Ireland, as illustrated by the eighth amenmdent and the poor funding of women's health services.

Labour believes that to fulfil women's right to health, we must work to create high quality health care across clinical areas including mental health, primary care, obstetrics and gynaecological services.



Labour's Conference in 2018 included a section dedicated to the future of women's health. The need for this was starkly shown by the cervical check cover-up scandal and the subsequent failures to meet women's health care needs in a timely and sensitive fashion.

Labour's policy working paper addresses the following areas which need to be addressed in a new approach to meeting women's health needs:

Learning from the Scally Report
Cervical cancer
Uterine and ovarian cancers
Gynaecological services
Hidden epidemics
Ending period poverty
Supports for breastfeeding mothers
Maternity services
Termination of pregnancy
Health and wellbeing

Growing instability in the electorate - and female solidarity

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One further trend apparent is the likely success of many women candidates, particularly on the European stage. It is possible that a majority of MEPs from Ireland for 2019-2024 could be women. In an earlier piece, I explored the role of women voters in this respect, asking about the extent to which they might tend to opt for a female over a male candidate, other things being equal.

Based on the RED C/RTÉ exit poll, it does seem that women voters did – as in 2014 – show a slight preference for female candidates.

The poll indicates that 50% of women cast their first preference for a woman in the European elections, whereas only 41% of men did so, a slightly bigger difference that was found in RTE’s 2014 exit poll. This holds across all parties, as is shown in Figure 2. This also holds for second preferences.

The downside of this for women candidates is that this implies men were less to support women, if by small margins. But there are normally more male voters.

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Who is he and what did he say? Twitter account is locked now.

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

And who is he?

People Before Profit Galway
2 hrs ·
The members of People Before Profit Galway are shocked and outraged to learn of the actions of Joe Loughnane.

We send our solidarity and support to the young woman involved.

It has come to light this morning that he has been physically aggressive with, and damaged the property of, a young woman.

There is absolutely no place in a proudly socialist feminist party like People Before Profit for people who behave like he has. Disciplinary action has been initiated by party HQ and he is suspended from the party.

He does not represent us.

We urge voters in Galway West to vote no. 1 Conor Burke of Solidarity-People Before Profit.

It is understood Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar has told his parliamentary party that any government coalition deal would seek to ensure the 11 taoiseach nominations for the Seanad would be mostly if not all women.