Gender Equality

Junior minister says she questioned ‘why I do this’ for first time in career as TD

IMO survey highlights abuses and need for supports such as on-site childcare to achieve greater equality

Four sculptures to be included alongside those of 40 men who already inhabit library

Department of Agriculture has oversight of 12 state boards but women currently under-represented

IT Sunday: The case is awkward for the State because it has consistently failed to deny that religious righteousness trumps everybody else’s rights

Smart Money: Male and female graduates get roughly the same pay when they enter the workforce, but not for long

New cross-party taskforce will also be set up to address the growing issue of intimidation

Funding would only be given following advice from gardaí and comes amid heightened security fears

Wellness rhetoric functions as a Trojan horse to smuggle in a more sinister agenda

Most solicitors are now women, but men still hold more than two-thirds of the best-paid partner positions in major legal practices

Reports cover around 20,000 directly employed staff on a wide range of Civil Service grades

2022 saw gender equality in numbers of new board-level appointments, research finds

In 1973, contraception and divorce were illegal but marital rape was not, and if you were married you were barred from entering the workforce

State’s largest employer says difference is due to more men in roles with higher pay such as medical and dental jobs

Telecoms company says it will ‘take steps to nurture women into fields and roles traditionally over-represented by men’

Minister expects Housing Commission to deliver its recommendations early in new year

Bonuses skew existing male advantage in remuneration at top Irish law firm where mean gender pay gap is 15% and a median gap is 26%

Social media company employs more than 2,000 people in State

More progress is needed on progressing women to senior leadership roles, report concludes

City unveils fines for insulting women drivers

Martin says votes on changes favoured by all political parties can be the ‘most dangerous’ and wording needs to be gotten right

Even after its abolition in 1973, the bar continued to cast a shadow over women working in the public service for decades

Gender Equality committee recommends referendum on replacing wording in the Constitution

Pay transparency measures are on the rise as authorities try to close gender pay gaps

‘Teen queer experience’ in rural communities in northwest documented in new book

Lower salary expectations and poor negotiating skills, even among students, mean women are accepting gender pay disparity as a given

There are consequences in overlooking women of a certain age in the office

Annual meeting of the IMO also hears of huge increase in number of Australian work visas issued to Irish doctors this year compared with pre-pandemic