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# Feminism

Last year
2023
Aoife Barry: Clips of Brand and others from the mid-2000s show how change still needs to happen
Aoife Barry
Emer Nolan: Sinéad blew up the image of Irish womanhood like Edna O'Brien had done before her
Emer Nolan
All time
Mona Eltahawy: 'No one ever asks men, don't you think violence against women begets violence?'
Opinion: From repression to Robinson and Repeal - the Irish heroine's journey
Kathy Scott
Men occupy most senior positions in civil service but are 'more likely to perceive gender bias in promotions'
History: As our election looms, spare a thought for the women of 1920
Margaret Ward
'It didn’t matter to her that the establishment might be upset': How Marian Finucane brought women's stories to the fore
Hanna Sheehy Skeffington: 'The ablest of all the fearless women who worked for Ireland’s freedom'
Margaret Ward
Ruth Bader Ginsburg helped change America - but her fight for gender equality hasn't been won
Here are the three women who are in with a real chance of defeating Donald Trump in the 2020 Presidential race
What has feminism ever done for men?
'I tell people: girls and women in patriarchal societies, they die as if they were never born'
Five words that are only ever ascribed to women
Your Repeal fire will be reignited watching Felicity Jones play ultra-feminist Supreme Court Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Gender-blind casting and unconscious bias training on the way for some major Irish theatre companies
'She was living in a derelict building dripping with damp under a tin roof. The year was 1998'
Anne Roper
Tara Flynn: 'Dear fellow Feminazis. I write this from The Bunker'
Tara Flynn
Germaine Greer criticized Meghan Markle and Twitter came down on her like a tonne of bricks
Serena Williams' new Nike ad is incredibly empowering
23 of the best celebrity Instagrams from International Women's Day
'Male celibates advise the Pope on what women really want, that is ludicrous'
Mary McAleese says it's 'pure codology' that women can't become priests
Poll: Are you a feminist?
Actor Catherine Deneuve apologises to sexual assault victims after letter attacking 'witch hunt'
Dear Fifi: How do I deal with a family member's shitty political opinions?
Opinion: Women of Ireland, 2018 will be our year
Orla O'Connor
Why Piers Morgan's obsession with Emily Ratajkowski is just plain old sexist
Emily Ratajkowski hit back at Piers Morgan after he called her a 'bimbo' over this photo shoot
Mary Kenny: 'I used to hear men say that "only tarts kiss and tell"'
Mary Kenny
#MeToo: 'Some contributors use it as a platform to pour scorn on all men'
AR Devine
Usborne issues apology for puberty book that says women have breasts to 'look grown-up and attractive'
Column: 'Is it possible to be Catholic and a feminist?'
Colleen Hennessy
Debate Room: 'Saudi Arabia's dress codes are an affront to individual freedoms'
Caitriona O'Neill and William Gallagher
Dismantling the myth that 'women don't want to do the dirty jobs that men do'
'Straight white males are an inferior type of human who should know their place'
AR Devine
'Ireland has lost a fierce and dedicated campaigner': Tributes pour in for Ann Louise Gilligan
Column: 'Irish women were writing too, yet we don’t hear half enough about them'
Eleanor Fitzsimons
HeForShe: Emma Watson's empty promise that when women's problems are solved, men will be free too
Karen Straughan
It's Different For Girls - women love music, make music and are good at music, thanks very much
Could horses be the way forward for women in Saudi Arabia?