# gender - Tuesday 7 October, 2014
# Because I Am A Girl
# Because I Am A Girl
Plan Ireland published a report today that highlighted gender inequality.
# Women In Sport
# Women In Sport
Women and girls are participating more in sports, and more consistently, in part because of strong examples set by homegrown female athletes.
# gender - Friday 3 October, 2014
# gender - Monday 29 September, 2014
# Homeless Ireland
# Homeless Ireland
How many people are sleeping rough in Wexford? Or how many are in emergency accommodation in Tipperary?
# gender - Sunday 28 September, 2014
# South Africa
# South Africa
In South Africa, more than 6 million of the country’s 52 million population are HIV positive.
# gender - Monday 22 September, 2014
# Equality
# Equality
UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson addressed the UN on the subject of feminism, and why it matters to both men and women.
# gender - Tuesday 16 September, 2014
# Gender Politics
# Gender Politics
Gender quotas are coming in at the next General Election. What will that mean for parties? FF are looking at the detail…
# gender - Monday 1 September, 2014
# Honour
# Honour
It has been 14 years since a woman received the honour.
# gender - Saturday 23 August, 2014
# The Shoes
From The Daily Edge
# The Shoes
Jeans, beards, farts, feelings.
# gender - Saturday 16 August, 2014
# Fake Tan
From The Daily Edge
# Fake Tan
Sports, tan, friends, feelings.
# gender - Friday 15 August, 2014
# Gender Identity
# Gender Identity
Paranoia prevents me from sticking my head above the parapet – but my silence is not an excuse to dehumanise me.
# gender - Thursday 7 August, 2014
# Transgender Rights
# Transgender Rights
The Equality Authority says it is worried about provision for married people who undergo gender realignment.
# gender - Sunday 3 August, 2014
# Gender Roles
# Gender Roles
Is achieving gender equality a battle to be fought by women, for women? No. (The hint is in the word ‘equality’.)
# gender - Thursday 31 July, 2014
# Gender Recognition
# Gender Recognition
Ireland proposes making trans people in existing marriages divorce as a pre-condition for recognition in their new gender.
# gender - Tuesday 29 July, 2014
# Genders
# Genders
Irish women are also the most fertile in Europe, a new report notes, while men are more likely to be imprisoned.
# gender - Tuesday 22 July, 2014
# Taboo
# Taboo
“It’s not fair Mama, why do only girls get sparkly things?”
# gender - Monday 14 July, 2014
# Gender Inequality
# Gender Inequality
Oxfam said that the Eurozone’s GDP would increase by 13% if women’s paid employment rates were the same.
# gender - Sunday 13 July, 2014
# Church Of England
# Church Of England
So says the head of the world’s Anglicans, as he prepares for a vote on the issue this week.
# gender - Friday 23 May, 2014
# Africa Day
# Africa Day
In the run-up to Africa Day, Salome Mbugua discusses her social justice work in Ireland and various African countries.
# gender - Tuesday 20 May, 2014
# Everyday Sexism
# Everyday Sexism
Laura Bates set up the hugely popular Everyday Sexism project after experiencing a number of sexist incidents over the course of a week.
# Employment
# Employment
Frances Shanahan presented such shows as Farm News and Countryside.
# gender - Wednesday 14 May, 2014
# Gender Equality
# Gender Equality
Two new studies from the ESRI look at gender and the impact of the recession on work and finances.
# gender - Monday 12 May, 2014
# Women On Air
# Women On Air
Minister Pat Rabbitte made the comment while speaking at the inaugural Women on Air conference at Dublin Castle.
# gender - Friday 9 May, 2014
# Historic
# Historic
Failure to give transgender people formal legal status has affected their ability to access education, transport and social welfare.
# gender - Saturday 3 May, 2014
# Unlocking The Code
# Unlocking The Code
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.
# gender - Tuesday 29 April, 2014
# Business
# Business
Female CEO are more likely to be fired, according to a new report. Let’s look at the possible reasons for this finding.
# gender - Wednesday 26 March, 2014
# Row
From The Daily Edge
# Row
The online store has responded to negative comments around its new TV commercial.
# gender - Friday 21 March, 2014
# Premiums
# Premiums
Women who smoke, in particular, have been hit by the introduction of the directive with premiums between one and 25 per cent higher
# gender - Thursday 20 March, 2014
# Leadership
# Leadership
The obstacles preventing women from reaching their full potential in the workplace are being steadily dismantled, writes Mairead Fleming.
# gender - Friday 7 March, 2014
# Glass Ceiling
# Glass Ceiling
Women are under-represented while support among executives for gender quotas drops.
# gender - Thursday 6 March, 2014
# Money Money Money
# Money Money Money
Figures from trade union Unite also found that almost 600,000 women live in deprivation or at risk of poverty.
# gender - Wednesday 5 March, 2014
# Women In Politics
# Women In Politics
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.
# gender - Friday 28 February, 2014
# No Laughing Matter
# No Laughing Matter
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.
# gender - Sunday 16 February, 2014
# Week In Web
# Week In Web
All of your essential tech and social media news for the week in one byte-sized portion.
# gender - Friday 14 February, 2014
# LGBT
# LGBT
Users in the US can now use 50 different custom gender terms – such as bi-gender and androgynous – to describe themselves.
# gender - Saturday 8 February, 2014
# Gender
# Gender
One parent of a transgender child also spoke of the difficulties faced with schools.
# gender - Saturday 11 January, 2014
# Opinion
# Opinion
Throughout her career, Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington strove simultaneously for national freedom and women’s rights, writes Leah Butler.
# gender - Tuesday 17 December, 2013
# Let Toys Be Toys
# Let Toys Be Toys
The company said it had listened to feedback from customers.
# gender - Friday 13 December, 2013
# Opinion
# Opinion
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.
# gender - Wednesday 20 November, 2013
