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.”