Following recommendations from the Citizens’ Assembly and a special joint Oireachtas committee, the November referendum...
Following recommendations from the Citizens’ Assembly and a special joint Oireachtas committee, the referendum represents a step towards advancing gender equality in Ireland.
“The State shall, therefore, endeavour to ensure that mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labour to the neglect of their duties in the home.” In his address, Varadkar said: “For too long, women and girls have carried a disproportionate share of caring responsibilities, been discriminated against at home and in the workplace — we can be the generation that changes that.”
Why is the wording so important? Well, the issues at play revolve around the Constitution’s implication that family is founded on marriage, and the clause relating to the role of women in the home. “In relation to replacing the old-fashioned wording around the role of women in the home with something affirmative, deletion is easy, but we want to replace it with something affirmative, which recognises the value of care in the home. Again we just need to get that right.”
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