Dáil quota would fuel war of the sexes

I AM a man, supposedly one of the patriarchal ruling class. Yet in all my life, I have neither seen nor ever engaged in anti-woman discrimination.

The vast majority of men and women my age have lived in the same world. We are all feminists and egalitarians and happily so.

The top graduate in my engineering class in UCD was a woman, my boss’s boss’s boss is a woman, and my daughters are growing up in a world where they occasionally comment on old movies by asking things like; “Daddy, is that from the old days when silly people thought girls couldn’t fly a plane/shoot a gun/be in charge?”.