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Fri 03 Mar 2009Surprised to feel at home at Equality Authority
It seems the obvious step of seeking gender equality for both genders is being taken
ALTHOUGH I have been writing about equality for years, I had never, until last Wednesday, been inside the Dublin headquarters of the Equality Authority. To be truthful, I didn’t even know it was in Clonmel Street, off Harcourt Street, a short walk from St Stephen’s Green. It may be relevant that I have never before been invited. But there was also my sense that the kind of equality the Equality Authority was interested in did not embrace the kinds of things I had increasingly, since the mid-1990s, found myself writing about.
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