The Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality has issued a whole raft of recommendations, including… [thread]

• Insert a new explicit clause into Article 40 on gender equality and non-discrimination
• Replace the text of Article 41.2 (woman in home) with wider clause on carers

• Amend Article 41 to protect private and family (incl non-marital) life
• Maternity leave for all elected reps
• Extend gender quotas for party candidates to local, Seanad and European Elections by the end of 2023

• Make funding to public bodies contingent on reaching a 40% gender balance quota by 2025.
• Require private companies to have at least 40% gender balance on their boards.
• Make public funding to cultural, sports, arts, media organisations contingent on a quota of 30% by '25

• Move to a publicly funded, accessible and regulated model of childcare over the next decade.
• Increase the State share of GDP spent on childcare, from the current 0.37% of GDP to at least 1% by no later than 2030.

• Paid leave for parents should cover the first year of a child’s life, be non-transferable, provide lone parents with the same total leave period as a couple and be incentivised by increasing payment levels to encourage increased take up

• Improve terms and conditions for those in paid employment as carers, including access to pensions
• Ensure choice in care and independence for older persons and persons with disabilities
• Changes to Carers Allowance, respite and pensions for family carers

• Revise Relationships & Sexuality Curriculum to cover gender power dynamics, consent and domestic, sexual and gender-based violence
• Develop guidelines and training for judges/lawyers on treatment of survivors, including the exclusion of sexual history, character, attire etc

• Appoint a Victims/Survivors Commissioner as an independent advocate and voice for victims/survivors
• Increase the minimum wage to a living wage by 2025
• Reduce, by law, the hourly gender pay gap to 9% by 2025, 4% by 2030, and 0% by 2035

• Adopt a fully individualised social protection system to reflect the diversity of today’s lives and to promote an equal division of paid work and care
• Empower and resource a public body for gender equality under a Cabinet Minister charged with cross government co-ordination

• Hold technology and social media companies accountable for immediately removing online content that constitutes sexual harassment, bullying, stalking, sexually violent or abusive content
• Make special efforts to improve the visibility of men performing caring roles