Joyce Fegan: Facts show gender quotas benefit us all long-term

"Quotas are there to speed up the essential change we're just too prejudiced, institutionalised and self-serving to make"

When Sweden introduced a gender quota for elections in 1994, the competence of their politicians in general increased, and among men in particular. Quotas are there to speed up the essential change we’re just too prejudiced, institutionalised and self-serving to make.

Is the issue with gender quotas or is the issue with women?

This week Fine Gael TD Emer Higgins introduced a Private Members’ Bill to Dáil Éireann seeking gender quotas for company boards.