Madam Politician

Fascinating and frustrating read. It is basically a knitting together of interviews of most of the, shamefully, small number of women who have been senior ministers or president of Ireland.

There is not a lot of analysis, it's not that kind of book, but what analysis is there is rather patchy.

Still the book vividly shows how slow the changes change in gender balance in Irish politics have begun to accelerate but also of how much is still to be done.