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Thu 08 Aug 2010More women needed to represent true democracy
OPINION:The Senator, who has championed gender quotas in the selection of political candidates, responds to yesterday’s Irish Timessurvey which found that a big majority of women TDs are against the idea
MARY MINIHAN’S survey of women TDs, published in T he Irish Timesyesterday, shows that despite the traditional resistance to the idea of “quotas” for women in politics, there is still a good deal of support for the introduction of such a measure among those already elected to the Dáil.
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