International Women's Day asks how we can break the bias women face every day

Esther McCarthy says we need International Women's Day more than ever, as the panellists at today's Irish Examiner's event share what Breaking the Bias means to them.

Esther McCarthy will host The Irish Examiner's International Women's Day 2022 event on Tuesday March 8.

We need International Women's Day more than ever. As well as the daily battles for gender equality in every community across the world, we're seeing the giant, terrifying issues around biases towards women and girls.

Ireland doesn't feel like a safe place to be female, as we witnessed the Ashling Murphy killing prompting the outpouring of stories from women across every section of society: we are targets, we don't feel safe, we want things to change.