Interesting Article

This article argues that women in Ireland do not have a significant role in politics which immediately caught my attention because the current President is a woman and the former President also happened to be a woman. According to statistics in the past 15 years the role of women in politics has not made any progress and men still out number women in the political parties of Ireland. The article is very brief but I feel it brings up an intriguing topic that makes people think, because if we in the U.S. had a woman President I would not think for one second that women had a lesser role in politics..if anything that would give me a reason to believe women have somewhere between equal and or higher importance in politics than that of men.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0428/1224269221603.html