National Women S Council
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Women in homes after 1973 must be eligible for mother and baby redress, ex-residents say
- Social Affairs
- January 15, 2021, 03:33
Women who entered mother and baby homes after 1973 must not be excluded from statutory redress, former residents and their advocates say. The report(...)

State relying on unpaid care work by women for far too long
- Opinion
- January 6, 2021, 04:04
“Before this it was a struggle but I was managing. Now, I am honestly at breaking point.” This comment from one of the many women on the National Wome(...)

Period poverty: ‘It’s important products are readily accessible at no cost like toilet roll or soap’
- Health & Family
- December 16, 2020, 06:01
The recent passing of a Bill in the Scottish parliament to bring in the legal right to free access to sanitary products has brought sharp focus to the(...)

Revisit gender pay gap legislation ‘as a priority’, Citizens’ Assembly told
- Business
- November 14, 2020, 18:08
Legislation mandating employers to publish the gender pay gap at their organisations must be reintroduced following its lapse with the dissolution of (...)

‘In 2018 I wrote publicly about my heritage. Soon after, the anti-Semitic messages began’
- TV, Radio, Web
- October 24, 2020, 06:00
The harassment many women face on social media has become frighteningly normalised. Online abuse of women must be tackled, by law and by the p(...)

No gender parity in Dáil ‘until 2063’ at current rate of progress
- Irish News
- October 18, 2020, 17:01
It will take until 2063 at the current rate of progress to achieve parity between male and female representation in the Dáil, the Citizens’ Assembly h(...)

Calls for mother and baby homes legislation to be given extra time for debate rejected
- Politics
- October 16, 2020, 15:05
Claims that legislation dealing with the records of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby homes must be passed by the end of the month (...)

Any ‘tolerance’ for abuse in colleges must end, says rape crisis chief
- Education
- September 9, 2020, 20:02
Dublin Rape Crisis Centre chief executive Noeline Blackwell has said she will work to rid university life of the “malfunction” of tolerance for sexual(...)

Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin contacted by UCD president with personal apology
- Social Affairs
- September 6, 2020, 17:44
President of UCD, Professor Andrew Deeks, has confirmed he contacted lecturer and broadcaster Dr Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin on Sunday evening, to perso(...)

Issues of consent and sexual violence an ‘epidemic’ at third level, says Harris
- Education
- July 27, 2020, 19:09
There is “a real epidemic in our country” around the issues of consent and sexual violence, Minister for Higher Education Simon Harris has said. “We (...)