Last month, the National Women’s Council of Ireland convened the ‘Alliance for Gender Quotas at Local Level’, which is a group of “civil society organisations and academics” working to advocate for statutory gender quotas of 40% for local elections.
Part of this advocacy involved the recent publication of a position paper on the matter, which details the ‘alliance’s’ analysis of the current diversity of the country’s local government landscape, while offering reflections and suggestions as to what might prove helpful in boosting the DEI characteristics of that level of governance.
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