Ireland’s record on women’s political representation at local, national and European level is very poor and disimproving, a report compiled by Senator Ivana Bacik has found.Ms Bacik, who produced the report on behalf of the Oireachtas committe on justice, said legislation requiring political parties to adopt “gender targets or quotas” in their candidate selection process should be introduced.“In 1990 when Mary Robinson was elected as our first women president we were at 37th place in the world classification of women’s representation in the single or lower house of national parliament…but by October of this year we had fallen to 84th position in the world,” the Labour Party Senator said.
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Ireland’s record on women’s political representation at local, national and European level is very poor and disimproving, a report compiled by Senator Ivana Bacik has found.Ms Bacik, who produced the report on behalf of the Oireachtas committe on justice, said legislation requiring political parties to adopt “gender targets or quotas” in their candidate selection process should be introduced.“In 1990 when Mary Robinson was elected as our first women president we were at 37th place in the world classification of women’s representation in the single or lower house of national parliament…but by October of this year we had fallen to 84th position in the world,” the Labour Party Senator said.
To read the complete story please visit IrishTimes.com.