Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The timing of this is wonderful because the Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality, in which the Tánaiste participated at an earlier stage, will publish its report on Thursday, 15 December on ending gender stereotyping, in particular, in Ireland. So much of this, as the convention recognises, comes from what has been an unequal gender-based power relationship for many years. I would suggest that the Department could lean into the Department of Education in respect of its programme on relationships and sex education, which is really the only way to effect long-term inter-generational change - a cultural change - of the kind that is necessary to disrupt those unequal power relationships, which form the basis for so much of gender and other harassment but particularly gender harassment.

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