{"id":11297,"date":"2025-01-23T19:14:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T19:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/?p=11297"},"modified":"2025-01-23T19:14:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T19:14:27","slug":"reduced-number-of-women-in-cabinet-is-deeply-disappointing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/reduced-number-of-women-in-cabinet-is-deeply-disappointing\/","title":{"rendered":"Reduced number of women in cabinet is deeply disappointing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is deeply disappointing that the number of women in cabinet has reduced by 25 per cent to just three, according to Social Democrats TD Jennifer Whitmore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are now as many men named James in the cabinet as there are women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFianna F\u00e1il and Fine Gael pay lip service to increasing women\u2019s representation in politics. They just don\u2019t believe in promoting them when they get elected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe D\u00e1il has the worst gender balance of parliaments in western Europe, with women making up only 25 per cent of TDs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of working to address that, by promoting talented women from within their own ranks, the government parties have reverted to type &#8211; creating a cosy\u00a0boys\u2019\u00a0club.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>January 23, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is deeply disappointing that the number of women in cabinet has reduced by 25 per cent to just three, according to Social Democrats TD Jennifer Whitmore. \u201cThere are now as many men named James in the cabinet as there are women. \u201cFianna F\u00e1il and Fine Gael pay lip service to increasing women\u2019s representation in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[268,7,658],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jennifer-whitmore","category-press-release","category-women-in-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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