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    1. tsubatai on

      hmm, over the water there they’ve got Kemi Badenoch, before that they had Liz Truss, Theresa May, Margaret Thatcher.

      Y’all sure you want to keep bringing up these stats? lol

    2. grogleberry on

      Be interesting to see an overlaid map of childcare costs in PPP.

    3. NoRecommendation3072 on

      The quotas introduced aren’t helpful at all if parties aren’t going to pick strong female candidates and also promote them.  

      In the latest general election, it felt like a lot female candidates were just tacked on as an afterthought to get whatever funding was going or to tick a box

      In my constituency, the male FG and FF candidates were either sitting TDs or in the Seanad so obviously have a much higher profile. The female candidates might have been great but just no-one had a clue who they were.

    4. InterviewEast3798 on

      Margaret Thatcher did wonders to empower British working class women.Jokes aside  Man or woman there all the same when it comes to politicians in this country . Pick your poison 

    5. NewryIsShite on

      Only 2 of Fianna Fáil’s 48 TDs are women.
      Only 5 of Fine Gael’s 38 TDs are women.
      Only 8 of Sinn Féin’s 39 TDs are women.

      Women make up 50.5% of the population of the 26 counties.

      The big parties have to do better.

    6. Massive-Foot-5962 on

      Thats a very dodgy visual – more red usually signifies more danger

    7. jocmaester on

      Best candidate or whoever ran the best campaign should get elected thats where any representation talk stops and ends for me. Would be different if there was widescale gender inequality but I didnt even consider gender when I gave a female candidate my 1st preference nor do 99% of the public.

    8. Cear-Crakka on

      It’s a democratic system here. Your genitals don’t get my vote. Your actions/words do. I’ve only ever given my No 1 vote to a female candidate and gender has nothing to do with my motivation to do so.

    9. WolfOfWexford on

      Bit of a pointless comparison considering all the different methods used to elect politicians in different countries.

      For the UK with the FPTP, you might vote for the party rather than the candidate where her you wouldn’t do that. Hence in the UK they can run a poor female candidate in a Tory stronghold for example and get the vote. Yes that also happens here to an extent but if it’s a stronghold constituency, there will always be a second candidate from the party

    10. Maximum-County-1061 on

      UK in the leadership groups again…

      Someone in that EU unit should ask them to consider closer relationships…. .

    11. WorldwidePolitico on

      I’d be interested to see how this compares to 20-30 years ago.

      It felt like during the Bertie years there was a lot more female TDs but I’m not sure if this was just because of how many heavyweights there were in the cabinet like Harney, O’Rourke, Coughlan etc

    12. gokurotfl on

      Voters being like “I’m not going to vote for a woman just because she’s a woman. She needs to prove that she’s competent” and then they vote for incompetent men.

    13. MeinhofBaader on

      Nikky Bradley was right, we should have lightened up and elected her as a TD. /s/

    14. NoTeaNoWin on

      Aren’t the countries without equal female representation thriving?

    15. Who cares? It’s about quality, not quantity.

      Mary Lou, Bacik, and others sought to erase “mother” and “woman” from the constitution.

      Sick to death of this gender qouta nonsense.

    16. Augustus_Chevismo on

      Do we have the type of culture here to either want a woman because she’s a woman or refuse a candidate because she’s a woman? Seems like an Americanism.

      I gave my first and second preference to women but it didn’t cross my mind that they were women.

    17. masterstoker on

      Is it deliberate that the countries with the most female parliamentarians are a worryingly deep shade of burgundy? /S

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