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PROGRESS HAS BEEN made regarding the number of women on boards in Ireland – but obstacles remain, a new report says.
The new research report looks into the views of women members of the Institute of Directors in Ireland, who currently hold a directorship, either executive or non-executive.
The report found that while progress has been made in improving gender diversity on boards, the women surveyed believe that greater transparency in the appointment process is needed so that the number of women on boards is increased.
The report showed the following positive points:
The negative points include:
Glass ceiling
When asked whether they believe there is a ‘glass-ceiling’ preventing women being appointed to boards in Ireland, 35 per cent said that a ‘glass ceiling’ does exist. This contrasted with almost the same amount (34 per cent) being of the opinion that there is either no ‘glass ceiling’ or that a ‘glass ceiling’ existed in the past, but not any longer.
A further 18 per cent of those surveyed believe that a ‘glass ceiling’ exists, but only in certain sectors or industry types, such as financial services and publicly listed companies.
Asked about gender quotas versus gender targets, 43 per cent said they believe that gender targets are preferable to mandatory quotas.
However, 29 per cent think that quotas are the most effective means of increasing the number of women on boards, while a quarter say that gender quotas are the wrong approach.
Maura Quinn, Chief Executive, Institute of Directors in Ireland, said:
What we now need to focus on is addressing the issues in the appointment process by working to ensure that women are on an equal footing to men from the outset and we must ensure that boards are encouraged to look at a wider talent pool when making appointments.
Asked about EU proposals to introduce a 40 per cent target for the under-represented sex on boards of Europe’s listed companies by 2020, 70 per cent said they support this, but 59 per cent surveyed are not confident or unsure whether Ireland can meet these requirements.
The report can be read online here.
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So, have the government started stealing your babies yet, or were Waters, Quinn and O’Brien wrong again?
Course they were wrong, sure any sane person knew they were talking out their backsides
No they are too busy enforcing the mandatory abortions from the abortion legislation to get around to stealing the babies
The legislation hasn’t been put in place yet. The referendum was passed but nothing in the constitution has changed yet.
To be fair, the anti-referendum campaign could also ask whether the Irish state’s protection of children has improved. A third alternative is that it was a big pointless vanity project.
Can we insist on the High Court awarding costs against this petitioner as this was a gross insult to jurisprudence as the woman produced no evidence to support her claim.
Read the article again Richie and you might understand it. Are you suggesting that only those with a 100% chance of winning their case should approach the courts? Sounds very elitist to me an attempt to limit peoples rights to avail of court services.
Whistleblowing will be the problem.
Remind me, did the govt ministers who sanctioned the ultra vires booklet pay the costs in the mccrystal case or pay back the public money wasted on the booklet?
What an absolute waste of court time, the judge should have jailed her for contempt.
Oh yes of course because she is wrong? The yes vote was pushed more then the no vote and the government don’t give a dame children in Ireland don’t have a voice and never ever will.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=I0OiNdj2aP4 , “There is no system ever devised by mankind that is guaranteed to rip husband and wife or father, mother and child apart so bitterly than our present Family Court System.” Judge Brian Lindsay, Retired Supreme Court Judge
Oh Rosemary!
So onto the Supreme Court?
Doesn’t seem justice was servered as supreme court had previously ruled the campaign was baised and unfair.
The High Court appear to say any referendum campain run by the Government of the day can indeed be biast and unfair as long as being biast and unfair does not have an affect on the result. This appears to overule the McKenna judgment.
However the Supreme Court says the Government campin on the childrens referendum was biast and unfair but did not make a judgment on if being biast and unfair had an affect on the result.
So I guess we will never know unless this decision is appealed to the Supreme Court.
More to the point when are FG and labour going to pay back the €2 million of tax payers money they misused during the referendum?
Kerry
I think you may find that the Government cannot be equated to a Political Party or Parties in terms of any errors it may have committed in their day to day roles. On the basis of your logic we should also ask the Roman Catholic Church for a contribution as well since most of the Members of Government were also of that faith and sure why not include the GAA while we’re at it!
Given that the above is apparently good legal advice will you now give it a rest Kerry?
2 government parties were found to have misused Irish tax payers money in a referendum. I tell you what Richie when they pay that money back I’ll give it a rest. How about a bit of accountability from Enda and Eamon?
Tom is quite right, the government are in the wrong-they always are!
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