{"id":1108,"date":"2020-07-29T14:22:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T13:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/lack-of-maternity-leave-an-obvious-barrier-to-women-entering-politics\/"},"modified":"2020-07-29T14:22:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T13:22:12","slug":"lack-of-maternity-leave-an-obvious-barrier-to-women-entering-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/lack-of-maternity-leave-an-obvious-barrier-to-women-entering-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of maternity leave an obvious barrier to women entering politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lack of maternity leave continues to be a glaringly obvious barrier to women entering politics, according to Social Democrats TD for Cork South West, Holly Cairns.<\/p>\n<p>Holly said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolitics is the only business in Ireland that does not provide maternity leave for TDs, Senators and County Councillors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaternity leave is not a perk; it\u2019s not a pay rise \u2013 it\u2019s a human right. Female dominated industries are often the undervalued and underpaid ones. But we have to ask &#8211; if there were more women at the decision-making table, would this be the case? If there were maternity leave provisions for politicians, would there be more women at these decision-making tables?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are 36 female TDs in this D\u00e1il out of 124, which is not something Ireland can be proud of. We can\u2019t scratch our heads after every election and ask why we haven\u2019t achieved greater equality when there is this glaringly obvious barrier for women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the D\u00e1il today, the Taoiseach committed to looking at the issue and I will be pressing for legislative change to be introduced in this area during the lifetime of this Government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>July 29, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lack of maternity leave continues to be a glaringly obvious barrier to women entering politics, according to Social Democrats TD for Cork South West, Holly Cairns. Holly said: \u201cPolitics is the only business in Ireland that does not provide maternity leave for TDs, Senators and County Councillors. \u201cMaternity leave is not a perk; it\u2019s not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[400,7,399],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holly-cairns","category-press-release","category-tds"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lack of maternity leave an obvious barrier to women entering politics - Social Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/lack-of-maternity-leave-an-obvious-barrier-to-women-entering-politics\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ga_IE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lack of maternity leave an obvious barrier to women entering politics - Social Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lack of maternity leave continues to be a glaringly obvious barrier to women entering politics, according to Social Democrats TD for Cork South West, Holly Cairns. 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