Ms Roisin Duffy:

It really comes to the same point. What Senator Higgins said is that there is anecdotal evidence that suggests, but it is simply a suggestion, that in some cases the man becomes the authoritative voice. This kind of thing was shown in the BBC when it looked at its statistics. It is unconscious, but quite often the woman is giving you the experience of something and the man is saying what the reality is. However, we do not have the research. If we had the monitoring, it would lead to the research and then we would know the extent of that here. We suspect it is pretty high, and that women deal a lot more in soft social science and softer storylines than finance, taxation and legal, but again we do not have the evidence.