Voters in Ireland have delivered “two wallops” to proposals to remove language about women’s duties being in the home and broaden the definition of family beyond marriage from the country’s constitution.
Voters in Ireland have rejected two proposals to remove language about women’s duties being in the home and broaden the definition of family beyond marriage from the country’s constitution.
All the country’s mainstream political parties had supported the reforms, which Varadkar had put forward to enshrine gender equality in the constitution by removing “very old-fashioned language” and recognise the realities of modern family life. The second proposal was to replace a reference to a woman’s place in the home offering a common good that could not be provided by the state with a clause recognising care provided by family members to one another.“Clearly we got it wrong,” Varadkar said. “While the old adage is that success has many fathers and failure is an orphan, I think when you lose by this kind of margin, there are a lot of people who got this wrong, and I am certainly one of them.
In 1995, Ireland voted to end its ban on divorce, with a later referendum in 2019 further liberalising divorce laws. In 2015, the country voted to legalise same-sex marriage, and, in 2018, a referendum was held that repealed the amendment that prohibited abortion.
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