Ireland: Understanding gender quotas as a stepping-stone to gender transformation and empowerment

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dc.check.date2024-12-02en
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dc.contributor.authorBrennan, Maryen
dc.contributor.authorBuckley, Fionaen
dc.contributor.authorGalligan, Yvonneen
dc.contributor.editorLang, Sabineen
dc.contributor.editorMeier, Petraen
dc.contributor.editorSauer, Birgiten
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-04T10:23:22Z
dc.date.available2023-05-04T10:23:22Z
dc.date.issued2022-12-02en
dc.description.abstractOstensibly, gender quotas have had a transformative effect on women’s political candidacy and election in Ireland. Since the inaugural “gender quota election” of 2016, the number of women candidates contesting general elections has increased by 90% while the number of women elected has increased by 44%. Yet, in 2022, men outnumber women by a ratio of 3.44:1 in Dáil Eireann (the lower house of parliament). This chapter discusses the implementation of legislative gender quotas in Ireland. It shows that political parties have met the letter of the law in fielding the requisite numbers of women candidates, but questions remain as to the extent to which the spirit of the law has been embraced to transform candidate selection processes within political parties. The chapter argues that legislative gender quotas should therefore be understood as the start rather than the culmination of efforts to achieve gender equality within political parties in Ireland. But beyond political parties, we conclude that the introduction of candidate gender quotas in Ireland flagged a significant shift in political culture, which carried through into later political reforms on the unresolved issue of abortion and the newer issue of marriage equality.en
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dc.identifier.citationBrennan, M., Buckley, F. and Galligan, Y. (2023) 'Ireland: Understanding gender quotas as a stepping-stone to gender transformation and empowerment', in Lang, S., Meier, P. and Sauer, B. (eds) Party Politics and the Implementation of Gender Quotas. Gender and Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp 231–248. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-08931-2_12en
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-031-08931-2_12en
dc.identifier.endpage248en
dc.identifier.isbn9783031089305en
dc.identifier.isbn9783031089312en
dc.identifier.issn2662-5814en
dc.identifier.issn2662-5822en
dc.identifier.startpage231en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/14430
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherPalgrave Macmillanen
dc.relation.ispartofParty Politics and the Implementation of Gender Quotasen
dc.relation.ispartofGender and Politicsen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesGender and Politicsen
dc.rights© 2023, the Authors, under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG. This version of the chapter has been accepted for publication, after peer review (when applicable) and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08931-2_12en
dc.subjectIrelanden
dc.subjectLegislative gender quotasen
dc.titleIreland: Understanding gender quotas as a stepping-stone to gender transformation and empowermenten
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