Ireland goes to the polls to change the constitution that says a woman's place is in the home
IRELAND voted on a referendum today to delete a reference in the country’s constitution to women’s domestic duties and broaden the definition of the family.
The first of the votes, which took place on International Women’s Day, deals with a part of the constitution that pledges to protect the family as the primary unit of society.
Voters were asked to remove a reference to marriage as the basis “on which the family is founded” and replace it with a clause that says families can be founded “on marriage or on other durable relationships.”
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