Our female politicians will continue to exit stage left

Gender quotas will see more female election candidates in the field but not necessarily in the Dáil and the woman who spearheaded the policy, Joan Burton, could lose out in the capital’s battle royale, writes Shaun Connolly

GENDER quotas, aren’t they just awful?

Well no, they are not, unless we are talking about the unofficial, though omnipresent one that has existed since the beginning of this State which dictates that at least 85% of the Dáil must be male — regardless of ability or intelligence.