This week in WomensRepresentation: what makes a candidate “likable”?; breaking down the 40% gender quota in Ireland; KristenClarkeJD and Simone_Biles make history; and more. From RepresentWomen's further_maura:
system, candidates campaign not only for first-choice votes, but also second- and third-choice votes, which encourages coalition-building rather than partisan and personal attacks. It forces the focus to be on candidates’ policy agendas and how they plan to address issues facing voters, rather than attacking and focusing on personal characteristics. This, in turn, forces the media and other consumption platforms to do the same.
“We have an obligation to remove key barriers, and certainly one of those is resources,” said Lujan Grisham, who is chair of the DGA. “So if we know that we’re not getting to the voters, that we’re not introducing them to these incredible women who by all accounts have incredible outcomes as executives, then we need to make sure that there’s a direct, finance-resource mechanism that is available to these up-and-coming statewide candidates.
In the past, more established parties like the Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have struggled to meet the 30 percent quota forcing them to add women candidates to party lists at the last minute and often leading to in-fighting.
It was crazy stuff and I used to keep asking them: ‘Do you actually believe there are more meritorious men in the world than women?’’ report authored by Ivana Bacik for the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice was a key moment.This report found that the obstacles to women’s equal participation in politics can be described as ‘the five Cs’ — cash, childcare, confidence, culture and candidate selection procedures.
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