Women and Politics in Ireland: The Road to Sex Quotas

Buckley, Fiona

doi:10.1080/07907184.2013.818537

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“…pressures) (Buckley, 2013). This leaves the inter-party competition and the perception of 'leaders' and 'laggards' in gender representation creating an important dynamic that can act as an external incentive for parties to move from equality rhetoric and discourse to ensuring practical equality guarantees and reforming their candidate selection procedures.…”

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“…Therefore, localism as an informal candidate recruitment norm is highly gendered, with highly gendered outcomes (Culhane, 2017). Furthermore, while many women are networked into local community groups and organisations, their spheres of influence are limited as men dominate sites of political power, whether that is within political parties or local councils (Buckley, 2013;Buckley et al, 2014;Culhane, 2017;Galligan, 2010).…”

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“…In itself this practice is gendered to privilege men, as men, who disproportionally hold positions of power within political parties, tend to recruit and select other men for political office (Culhane, 2017, p. 49). Reviews of office holders in political parties consistently show that leadership positions are dominated by men (Buckley, 2013;Galligan, 2010;Galligan et al, 1999). It usually falls to the occupants of these leadership roles, notably constituency party chairpersons, to identify and approach potential candidates for selection convention.…”

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“…Indeed, prior to the introduction of legislative gender quotas, parties, in general, did very little to balance party tickets for social or gender considerations (Buckley, 2013;Buckley & McGing, 2011, p. 228;Weeks, 2010, p. 160). However, the economic crash of 2008 and the ensuing political reform discourse, which queried the representativeness and diversity of politics, would change all that.…”

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The Irish legislative gender quota: The first election

Brennan

Buckley

2017

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In 2012 legislative gender quotas were introduced as part of the Fine Gael/Labour coalition government's political reform agenda. The legislation specifies that payments to political parties 'shall be reduced by 50 per cent, unless at least 30 per cent of the candidates whose candidatures were authenticated by the qualified party at the preceding general election were women and at least 30 per cent were men'. The 30 per cent gender threshold came into effect at the 2016 general election. Research demonstrates that gender quotas work to increase women's political descriptive representation, but to do so, political parties must engage with them in 'goodwill', be 'wellintentioned' or place women in 'winnable seats'. This article examines if this was the case at the 2016 general election. Using statistics, as well as drawing from interviews with party strategists, the article assesses the impact of gender quotas on women's candidate selection and election. We conclude that parties did embrace the spirit of the gender quota law but resistance remains.

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“…While government may have acted on these issues for other reasons, Buckley (2013) outlines considerable women's agency on gender candidate quotas including an NWCI appointment of a Women in Politics campaign coordinator and the emergence of lobby group 50:50 who campaigned for the implementation of measures to redress gender imbalance. Other developments include the 2011 award from Social Entrepreneurs Ireland to the project 'Women for Election' as well as individual political party projects where women's groups or individual critical actors have sought to advance gender parity strategies within political parties.…”

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Gendering the Narrative of the Irish Crisis

Murphy

2015

Irish Political Studies

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Adding a gender dimension to the story of the Irish crisis deepens our understanding of crisis and necessary responses. Using gender both as category and process we see clear gendered patterns throughout the Irish crisis including patterns of gender inequality in gendered institutions and changes in the process of gendered agency. Reviewing the extent to which Irish political and public spheres, banking and budgetary processes are gendered raises questions about how this impacts on post crisis outcomes. The gendered lens draws attention to the risks inherent in hyper-masculine institutions and culture and questions whether greater gender balance might alter the risk oriented culture of Irish financial services. It also draws attention to the gendered nature of Irish austerity budgets which disproportionately impacted women, and low income women in particular. The crisis also impacted on feminist agency. Examining women's political agency in the context of the crisis we find examples of defensive agency that sought to protect women's interests from fiscal retrenchment. These exist alongside examples of offensive feminist agency that use the crisis as an opportunity to strengthen gender equality in the political and policy processes. We find the gender infrastructure negatively impacted but despite such damage, we find feminist agency remains crucial to realising gender equality in public and private decision-making and despite the crisis, hopeful signs of renewed feminist agency are present.

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Women and Politics in Ireland: The Road to Sex Quotas

Cited by 26 publications

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