Yvonne Galligan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3591163 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Yvonne Galligan |
| PRENOMES | Yvonne |
| SOBRENOME | Galligan |
| ASSINATURA | GALLIGAN Y |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Technological University Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4624-3959 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 121 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Representing gender equality? Parliamentary committees on women’s rights in Ireland, 1983–2024
The 2024 general election – a gender analysis
Women in politics
This chapter draws attention to gender and representative politics in Ireland. It begins by taking a detailed look at the pattern of women’s representation in social and political decision-making. This is followed by an exploration of the causes of women’s absence from public life and a discussion of the parliamentary representation of women’s interests. The significant progress in relation to women’s lives and women’s political representation in…
Towards an Inclusive and Representative Academic Landscape
This article is a summary of a panel discussion entitled ‘Towards an inclusive and representative academic landscape’, held at the Building Bridges Meeting of Academia Europaea and the Young Academy of Europe on 26 October 2022. The panellists were Professor Yvonne Galligan, director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and Professor of Comparative Politics at the Technological University Dublin, Dr Katalin Solymosi, plant biologist, assistant pr…
Gender Equality Politics
This chapter examines the gender contract between women, society, and the state to identify continuities and changes in gender equality in Irish society since the 1970s. It examines attitudes to women in the home and the controversial public policy debates on abortion to illustrate shifts and stasis in this relationship. The chapter explores the slow evolution of gender equality as an institutional policy concern, supported by successive governme…
Delivering gender justice in academia through gender equality plans? Normative and practical challenges
This paper employs the concept of epistemic justice to examine the potential for gender equality plans (GEPs) to bring about sustainable transformative change towards gender equality in higher education. Mindful of both the limitations and opportunities of gender policy interventions, the paper highlights the importance of approaching gender inequality as a problem of justice and power rather than as an issue of “loss of talent.” The paper draws …
Women MPs from Northern Ireland
This article investigates women’s representation as Northern Ireland (NI) MPs in the House of Commons since 1953. The central argument of the study is that the political and cultural positions dominant at the formation of NI in the early 20th century reverberate through the generations and continue to inform women’s political under-representation today. The article provides an historical context for women’s political and public participation from…
The 2020 general election
The February 2020 general election will be remembered as the “change” election, when the two dominant parties of Irish politics, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, trailed behind Sinn Féin in voters' preferences for the first time. However, for the gender balance of Irish politics, much remained unchanged. While the number of women elected to Dáil Éireann increased by one, this marginal growth since the 2016 general election was deemed a disappointment b…
Analysing gender and institutional change in academia
This article explores research on gender and institutions for the purposes of informing analytical frameworks for research on institutional change with regard to gender equality in higher education. Drawing on feminist institutionalist studies that explore the relationship between gender, institutions and institutional continuity and change, the aim is to evaluate how this body of scholarship can be adapted to an analysis of the dynamics of gende…
Sharing Power
The changing role of women
This chapter aims to extent to which conservative, traditional and religious attitudes influencing the role and status of women in society hold sway at the close of the millennium. The tensions between slowly changing attitudes towards traditional gender roles and the visible progress on women’s political representation and rights are explored. In the 1980s, institutional responses took the form of the establishment of the junior ministry for wom…
Gender and Politics in Northern Ireland
This article examines the nature of gender politics in Northern Ireland since the 1998 Good Friday/Belfast Agreement. Taking gender justice as a normative democratic framework, the article argues that despite the promise of women's equal participation in public and political life written into the Agreement, parties have delivered varied responses to integrating women, women's interests and perspectives into politics and policy platforms. This con…
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Transforming the Irish Presidency
The election of two energetic women in succession to the office of President of Ireland challenged the notion that the presidency was a long-service reward for retiring politicians. Mary Robinson and Mary McAleese broke the male domination of the office, interpreted its functions in a more dynamic manner, and utilised the ‘soft power’ of the presidency with skill. Yet, as individuals they were very different in political focus, experience and ide…
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Attitudes Towards Women in Politics
This article analyses the effects of gender, generation and party support towards a greater inclusion of women in politics in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. It explores attitudes on this issue using the same question in the Irish National Election Study and the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey. The article documents a consistent gender gap in both polities that persists across the generations, despite controls for socio-demog…
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Delivering gender justice in academia through gender equality plans? Normative and practical challenges
This paper employs the concept of epistemic justice to examine the potential for gender equality plans (GEPs) to bring about sustainable transformative change towards gender equality in higher education. Mindful of both the limitations and opportunities of gender policy interventions, the paper highlights the importance of approaching gender inequality as a problem of justice and power rather than as an issue of “loss of talent.” The paper draws …
Gender and Politics in Northern Ireland
This article examines the nature of gender politics in Northern Ireland since the 1998 Good Friday/Belfast Agreement. Taking gender justice as a normative democratic framework, the article argues that despite the promise of women's equal participation in public and political life written into the Agreement, parties have delivered varied responses to integrating women, women's interests and perspectives into politics and policy platforms. This con…
Analysing gender and institutional change in academia
This article explores research on gender and institutions for the purposes of informing analytical frameworks for research on institutional change with regard to gender equality in higher education. Drawing on feminist institutionalist studies that explore the relationship between gender, institutions and institutional continuity and change, the aim is to evaluate how this body of scholarship can be adapted to an analysis of the dynamics of gende…
Attitudes Towards Women in Politics
This article analyses the effects of gender, generation and party support towards a greater inclusion of women in politics in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. It explores attitudes on this issue using the same question in the Irish National Election Study and the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey. The article documents a consistent gender gap in both polities that persists across the generations, despite controls for socio-demog…
Gender and Political Representation
Representation is a core concept in the study and practice of politics. In unpacking its meaning, a useful starting point is to consider it as consisting of three distinct, interrelated dimensions. It is about who represents, what is represented, and how it is represented. The context of formal politics (voters, parties, elections, and legislators) provides the usual background for a discussion of one or more elements of representation. More rece…
Prospects for Women's Legislative Representation in Postsocialist Europe
Research on women's political representation in postsocialist Europe has highlighted the role of cultural and political factors in obstructing women's access to legislative power, such as the prevalence of traditional gender stereotypes, electoral systems, and the absence of a feminist movement. Yet, the role of women political elites in enhancing or hindering women's access to political power in the region has so far remained uncharted. This art…
The effect of candidate gender on voting in Ireland, 1997∗
Views from the periphery
The representation of women as Members of Parliament in the Republic of Ireland and in Scotland is low by European standards. It is argued that two separate political events ‐ the election of Mary Robinson as Ireland's first woman president and pressures for constitutional change in Scotland ‐ could provide the opportunity to change the political agenda for women in these two countries. We record the response of the political parties to the deman…
The 2020 general election
The February 2020 general election will be remembered as the “change” election, when the two dominant parties of Irish politics, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, trailed behind Sinn Féin in voters' preferences for the first time. However, for the gender balance of Irish politics, much remained unchanged. While the number of women elected to Dáil Éireann increased by one, this marginal growth since the 2016 general election was deemed a disappointment b…
A Job in Politics Is Not for Women
This article discusses women’s political representation in Central and Eastern Europe in the fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the adop-tion of liberal democratic political systems in the region. It highlights the deep-seated gender stereotypes that define women primarily as wives and mothers, with electoral politics seen as an appropriate activity for men, but less so for women. The article explores the ways in which conservati…
Transforming the Irish Presidency
The election of two energetic women in succession to the office of President of Ireland challenged the notion that the presidency was a long-service reward for retiring politicians. Mary Robinson and Mary McAleese broke the male domination of the office, interpreted its functions in a more dynamic manner, and utilised the ‘soft power’ of the presidency with skill. Yet, as individuals they were very different in political focus, experience and ide…
Measuring gender equality
English This article focuses on the experience of developing gender equality indicators in the UK and Republic of Ireland and on the challenges confronting policy makers in mainstreaming gender equality into public policies. It identifies the internationalisation of gender equality as a critical pressure on governments to address gender mainstreaming, and summarises the literature on gender equality indicators as a policy response to this demand.…
Equalizing Opportunities for Women in Electoral Politics in Ireland
This paper examines the attitudes of women political elites in Ireland toward positive action initiatives that would assist in increasing women's legislative presence. An earlier study isolated family responsibilities and lack of finance as significant barriers for Irish women wishing to enter, and stay in, political life. In addition, scholarly and policy debates on boosting women's parliamentary representation focus on manipulating electoral or…
The report of the second commission on the Status of Women
(1993). The report of the second commission on the Status of Women. Irish Political Studies: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 125-130
Views from the periphery
The representation of women as Members of Parliament in the Republic of Ireland and in Scotland is low by European standards. It is argued that two separate political events ‐ the election of Mary Robinson as Ireland's first woman president and pressures for constitutional change in Scotland ‐ could provide the opportunity to change the political agenda for women in these two countries. We record the response of the political parties to the deman…
Irish Women - Organising for Change
Engender was launched as a membership organisation in February 1993 and since that time has attracted a membership of over 300 women. During the first year, the women in Engender have achieved a great deal. They have raised money through a variety of fundraising activities and campaigned for a Women's Committee in Glasgow District Council. Engender produces a Newsletter for members and published its first Gender Audit in 1993. The second Gender A…
Women and National Identity in the Republic of Ireland
The relationship between women and (he slate in the Republic of Ireland has long been a problematic one. Even today, when we observe the situation of women in Ireland, we are immediately struck by the apparent unquestioning acceptance of a lifestyle based in (he home. This ideal of motherhood and domesticity has found continual expression in political terms. Yet, when we look more closely, we find that Irish women have not accepted their exclusio…
The effect of candidate gender on voting in Ireland, 1997∗
Candidate Selection
In the 2002 election, a total of 463 candidates presented themselves to the voters in Ireland’s 42 constituencies; most of these — 325, or 70 per cent — came from the six main parties while the other 138 were either independents or representatives of minor parties. The candidate selection process offers a rare glimpse of the internal workings of political parties, of internal rivalries and of the balance of power between party centres and constit…
Equalizing Opportunities for Women in Electoral Politics in Ireland
This paper examines the attitudes of women political elites in Ireland toward positive action initiatives that would assist in increasing women's legislative presence. An earlier study isolated family responsibilities and lack of finance as significant barriers for Irish women wishing to enter, and stay in, political life. In addition, scholarly and policy debates on boosting women's parliamentary representation focus on manipulating electoral or…
Equalizing opportunities for women in electoral politics in Ireland
A Job in Politics Is Not for Women
This article discusses women’s political representation in Central and Eastern Europe in the fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the adop-tion of liberal democratic political systems in the region. It highlights the deep-seated gender stereotypes that define women primarily as wives and mothers, with electoral politics seen as an appropriate activity for men, but less so for women. The article explores the ways in which conservati…
Measuring gender equality
English This article focuses on the experience of developing gender equality indicators in the UK and Republic of Ireland and on the challenges confronting policy makers in mainstreaming gender equality into public policies. It identifies the internationalisation of gender equality as a critical pressure on governments to address gender mainstreaming, and summarises the literature on gender equality indicators as a policy response to this demand.…
Gender and Political Representation
Representation is a core concept in the study and practice of politics. In unpacking its meaning, a useful starting point is to consider it as consisting of three distinct, interrelated dimensions. It is about who represents, what is represented, and how it is represented. The context of formal politics (voters, parties, elections, and legislators) provides the usual background for a discussion of one or more elements of representation. More rece…
In This Issue
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Prospects for Women's Legislative Representation in Postsocialist Europe
Research on women's political representation in postsocialist Europe has highlighted the role of cultural and political factors in obstructing women's access to legislative power, such as the prevalence of traditional gender stereotypes, electoral systems, and the absence of a feminist movement. Yet, the role of women political elites in enhancing or hindering women's access to political power in the region has so far remained uncharted. This art…
In This Issue
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Attitudes Towards Women in Politics
This article analyses the effects of gender, generation and party support towards a greater inclusion of women in politics in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. It explores attitudes on this issue using the same question in the Irish National Election Study and the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey. The article documents a consistent gender gap in both polities that persists across the generations, despite controls for socio-demog…
In This Issue
In this issue
Transforming the Irish Presidency
The election of two energetic women in succession to the office of President of Ireland challenged the notion that the presidency was a long-service reward for retiring politicians. Mary Robinson and Mary McAleese broke the male domination of the office, interpreted its functions in a more dynamic manner, and utilised the ‘soft power’ of the presidency with skill. Yet, as individuals they were very different in political focus, experience and ide…
Political science (34 obras) · Sociology (25 obras) · Politics (23 obras) · Law (21 obras) · Gender Politics and Representation (18 obras) · Irish and British Studies (15 obras) · Law (14 obras) · Economics (11 obras) · Gender Studies (10 obras) · Public Administration (10 obras)