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(18-09-2010) Moving in from the Margins
organised by
Women's Studies UCC University College Cork (UCC) in conjunction with the Political Studies Association of Ireland (PSAI) Gender Politics Specialist Group.
Saturday, 18th September 2010
Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, Room G04
University College Cork
Conference Programme
| 9.30 - 10.00 |
Registration |
| 10.00 | Welcome |
| 10.00 – 10.20 | Opening Address Mary White, TD, Minister for Equality, Integration and Human Rights |
| 10.20 –11.30: |
Strategies for increasing women’s representation |
| Chair: Fiona Buckley – Department of Government, UCC
Prof. Yvonne Galligan (Queen’s University Belfast) Leading by Example: Why it is important to have more women in Irish politics?
Susan McKay (National Women’s Council of Ireland) I'm alright Jill: political power is fine for me but it would diminish and insult you. Irish women with power speak out against other women getting it |
|
| 11.30 – 11.45 | Break |
| 11.45 - 1.15 | Impact of (under) representation of women on policy-making |
| Chair: Dr. Jacqui O’Riordan – Women’s Studies, UCC
Noirín Clancy (Women Into Public Life Project) Supporting, Empowering, Transforming
Dr. Eileen Connolly (Dublin City University) Women in Parliament and Substantive Representation - a Cautionary Tale?
Dr. Margaret O’Keeffe (Cork Institute of Technology) Women’s Political Representation in Ireland: Taking ‘Particularity’ Seriously
Joanne Vance (National Women’s Council of Ireland) Our Health and Our Wealth |
|
| 1.15 – 2.15 |
Lunch |
| 2.15 – 2.45 | Ireland: An Unfinished Democracy |
| Senator Ivana Bacik (Rapporteur, Joint Oireachtas Committee) Gender Injustice – Getting Women into Politics and into Power |
|
| 2.45 – 3.30 | A woman’s voice: women politicians’ experiences of political life in Ireland |
| Chair: Prof. Yvonne Galligan – Queen’s University Belfast
Máire Hoctor, TD Gemma Hussey, former Cabinet Minister Kathleen Lynch, TD Senator Mary White |
|
| 3.30 – 3.45 | Break |
| 3.45 – 4.30: | Roundtable Discussion |
| Chair: Dr. Sandra McAvoy – Women’s Studies, UCC | |