What can be done to make care less gendered and more respected in Ireland?

We need to normalise men taking up caring roles, both informal unpaid care in the home, and as a professional career

Jennifer Horgan with her father Billy, who suffered a stroke three years ago. Picture: Dan Linehan

Who cares? Well, women, mostly.

As a child I’d often wake in the night with growing pains. My dad would get up and rub my legs until I could get back to sleep. He’d carry me on his shoulders on family holidays. In a lot of ways, for as long as I needed him to, he carried me. Later, he became my mum’s carer.