In last year’s Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU) elections, we saw something unprecedented: an equal gender balance in candidates and an electoral result that led four women to be elected out of five officers, something that had never happened before. Much of this outcome was attributed to a sustained campaign to promote “Women in Leadership”, created and developed by Katie Byrne, the 2014/15 Education Officer and the only woman sabbat that year. What had seemed to herald a greater engagement of women in student politics instead appears to have been an anomaly. But it didn’t last. Of the candidates for the 2016/17 sabbatical roles, … Continue reading Encouraging Women is Not Something We Can Just Allow to Fall Away