When women’s voices are excluded, you have to wonder if those doing the excluding didn’t notice, or noticed and just didn’t care.
This is the case in Northern Ireland, which has previously been described as an “armed patriarchy”, where women are routinely excluded from policymaking or permitted only token involvement.
Worse still, when women in Northern Ireland do share their views, they are hounded and abused online (and often off too). Though horrifying, this is perhaps not surprising: Northern Ireland is one of the most dangerous places in Europe to be a woman, with three times as many femicides as England or Wales.
