10/08/2001
Farmers plan to increase decision making role of women
The Irish Farmers Association have launched a new three-year equality plan which aims to involve more women in decision making on farming matters.
The ‘Equality for Women’ scheme is to receive 75 per cent funding under the National Development Plan with the remaining 25 per cent coming from Irish Farmers Association (IFA).
Speaking at the RDS on Thursday August 9, Chairperson of the IFA Farm Family Committee Betty Murphy, said women have traditionally been the ‘hidden workforce’ but that will now change. She added: “Currently about 600 IFA voluntary officers are involved at decision making levels at county and national level, about nine per cent of these are women. We are now planning to build on this by encouraging more women to become involved right across the Association’s structures.”
The IFA will shortly appoint a national equality officer to advise members of the new initiative in its 925 branches.
The equality programme will involve three related strands of information and training; increased participation and thirdly, rebalancing IFA policy agenda.
Efforts to redress the gender balance will also see more women getting involved in the Association’s wider county and local organisations, such as County Development boards and Strategic policy Committees.
Mrs Murphy said these efforts will increase the Association’s resource of women officers for appointment and ultimately “should increase the role of women in decision making in the wider rural economy”. (AMcE)
The ‘Equality for Women’ scheme is to receive 75 per cent funding under the National Development Plan with the remaining 25 per cent coming from Irish Farmers Association (IFA).
Speaking at the RDS on Thursday August 9, Chairperson of the IFA Farm Family Committee Betty Murphy, said women have traditionally been the ‘hidden workforce’ but that will now change. She added: “Currently about 600 IFA voluntary officers are involved at decision making levels at county and national level, about nine per cent of these are women. We are now planning to build on this by encouraging more women to become involved right across the Association’s structures.”
The IFA will shortly appoint a national equality officer to advise members of the new initiative in its 925 branches.
The equality programme will involve three related strands of information and training; increased participation and thirdly, rebalancing IFA policy agenda.
Efforts to redress the gender balance will also see more women getting involved in the Association’s wider county and local organisations, such as County Development boards and Strategic policy Committees.
Mrs Murphy said these efforts will increase the Association’s resource of women officers for appointment and ultimately “should increase the role of women in decision making in the wider rural economy”. (AMcE)
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