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Burton: Cabinet lacks key knowledge of issues due to shortage of female ministers, Ireland

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Burton: Cabinet lacks key knowledge of issues due to shortage of female ministers, Ireland

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The stark gender imbalance in cabinet means many ministers have little direct knowledge of policy issues they are discussing, the Cabinet’s most senior female minister has suggested.

Joan Burton said that when issues such as children, care and “all sorts of struggles”, including the Magdalene Laundries, were discussed, it was “surprising” because “you have a lot of men around the table and they haven’t had much contact with some of these issues”. 

 

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The stark gender imbalance in cabinet means many ministers have little direct knowledge of policy issues they are discussing, the Cabinet’s most senior female minister has suggested.

Joan Burton said that when issues such as children, care and “all sorts of struggles”, including the Magdalene Laundries, were discussed, it was “surprising” because “you have a lot of men around the table and they haven’t had much contact with some of these issues”. 

 

(We invite our users to read the full article published March 4 2013)

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