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No country in the world gives women the same power, pay and rights it gives to men
Plan Ireland published a report today that highlighted gender inequality.
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Plan Ireland published a report today that highlighted gender inequality.
Women and girls are participating more in sports, and more consistently, in part because of strong examples set by homegrown female athletes.
Yes, but not by design.
How many people are sleeping rough in Wexford? Or how many are in emergency accommodation in Tipperary?
In South Africa, more than 6 million of the country’s 52 million population are HIV positive.
UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson addressed the UN on the subject of feminism, and why it matters to both men and women.
Gender quotas are coming in at the next General Election. What will that mean for parties? FF are looking at the detail…
It has been 14 years since a woman received the honour.
Jeans, beards, farts, feelings.
Sports, tan, friends, feelings.
Paranoia prevents me from sticking my head above the parapet – but my silence is not an excuse to dehumanise me.
The Equality Authority says it is worried about provision for married people who undergo gender realignment.
Is achieving gender equality a battle to be fought by women, for women? No. (The hint is in the word ‘equality’.)
Ireland proposes making trans people in existing marriages divorce as a pre-condition for recognition in their new gender.
Irish women are also the most fertile in Europe, a new report notes, while men are more likely to be imprisoned.
“It’s not fair Mama, why do only girls get sparkly things?”
Oxfam said that the Eurozone’s GDP would increase by 13% if women’s paid employment rates were the same.
So says the head of the world’s Anglicans, as he prepares for a vote on the issue this week.
In the run-up to Africa Day, Salome Mbugua discusses her social justice work in Ireland and various African countries.
Laura Bates set up the hugely popular Everyday Sexism project after experiencing a number of sexist incidents over the course of a week.
Frances Shanahan presented such shows as Farm News and Countryside.
Two new studies from the ESRI look at gender and the impact of the recession on work and finances.
Minister Pat Rabbitte made the comment while speaking at the inaugural Women on Air conference at Dublin Castle.
Failure to give transgender people formal legal status has affected their ability to access education, transport and social welfare.
A new report proposes that women could be the key to bridging the skills gap in the IT sector, but found that three quarters of females working in the industry had not planned on making it their career.
Female CEO are more likely to be fired, according to a new report. Let’s look at the possible reasons for this finding.
The online store has responded to negative comments around its new TV commercial.
Women who smoke, in particular, have been hit by the introduction of the directive with premiums between one and 25 per cent higher
The obstacles preventing women from reaching their full potential in the workplace are being steadily dismantled, writes Mairead Fleming.
Women are under-represented while support among executives for gender quotas drops.
Figures from trade union Unite also found that almost 600,000 women live in deprivation or at risk of poverty.
Industry is leading the way in discovering the benefits of gender balanced boardrooms, and the business of politics should be no different, writes Emer Higgins.
Quotas will never resolve the battle of the sexes. They’re regressive, counter-productive and a very short-sighted solution to gender representation, writes Lorraine Courtney.
All of your essential tech and social media news for the week in one byte-sized portion.
Users in the US can now use 50 different custom gender terms – such as bi-gender and androgynous – to describe themselves.
One parent of a transgender child also spoke of the difficulties faced with schools.
Throughout her career, Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington strove simultaneously for national freedom and women’s rights, writes Leah Butler.
The company said it had listened to feedback from customers.
The “rules” and maschismo that so many boys learn early in life has created a stifling idea of what it means to be a man. But we don’t need to be bound by these narrow ideas, writes Carlos Andrés Gómez.
And it is stupendous.
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