Professor Fidelma Ashe:

It depends on which kind of background the women are coming from. It has to be tailored to that. On paper, engagement with university-educated women looks easier, but the more we know, the more complex the issues are. What we have found about women participating is that, unlike university-educated women, they sometimes feel they do not have the information, do not have the technical expertise and do not have the confidence to participate. Perhaps we could encourage women going through the education system to become more comfortable with those discussions but I would need to speak to those women before I could shape some way for them to engage around those constitutional questions.