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Fri, 02 Oct, 2020
A TD says she left her home for a week after getting threatening phone calls in the middle of the night.
Thu, 14 Nov, 2019
The country’s largest property website, daft.ie, has been ordered to block any discriminatory advertising from appearing on its website.
Tue, 20 Aug, 2019
Within a year, a pay gap emerged between male and female graduates, new figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show.
Thu, 18 Jul, 2019
New guidance for Catholic schools issued by the Vatican rejecting the idea that people can self-declare their gender “ignores the real and legitimate experiences” of young trans people, according to Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI).
Tue, 11 Jun, 2019
Education Minister Joe McHugh has said that he cannot commit to a timeline to end pay inequality for teachers.
Tue, 23 Apr, 2019
They were certainly disagreeing with each other, but that wasn’t why two of the women spoke louder and with more precise diction than the norm in a half-filled railway carriage.
Mon, 01 Apr, 2019
Ireland has come some way in tackling inequality in the past 40 years but still has a long way to go towards gender equality at the top of organisations, says Kyran Fitzgerald
Mon, 11 Mar, 2019
Everyone has a right to an education, and upholding this right and ensuring no one gets left behind will require co-operation from all stakeholders, writes Amina J Mohammed.
Thu, 14 Feb, 2019
Firms are missing out on key ingredients to maximising business by not employing more women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), a leading firm in Cork has said.
Fri, 08 Feb, 2019
The introduction of the minimum wage in Ireland almost 20 years ago slashed the gender pay gap for lower paid workers but not in any other wage levels.
Sat, 08 Dec, 2018
Removing the gender pay gap will be the next big issue that must be tackled in society, a Fianna Fáil senator has claimed.
Mon, 12 Nov, 2018
Women are effectively working for free from tomorrow until the end of the year.
The gender pay gap of 14% means that women “effectively stop earning in mid-November” compared to men.
Thu, 01 Nov, 2018
Rena Buckley has won 18 All-Ireland medals. By any criteria, she has earned a place in the Irish sporting pantheon.
Tue, 16 Oct, 2018
A leading international expert has told an event on gender equality in Cork today that organisations are experiencing ‘gender fatigue’ when it comes to implementing gender diversity.
Mon, 03 Sep, 2018
Most decent societies are committed to the idea of equal opportunity for all.
Drivers and staff on public transport who are subjected to daily racial abuse have called on the Government to introduce transport police to tackle ongoing incidents.
Sat, 11 Aug, 2018
One of Ireland's oldest education publishers are to revisit a series of school books, after young students in a Dublin national school highlighted gender and race inequality.
Wed, 27 Jun, 2018
Teachers are warning they may be forced to go on strike if progress is not made on the pay equality issue.
Thu, 24 May, 2018
Companies will face fines, or potential court-compliance orders, unless they publish gender pay-gap salary details at least once a year, under strict new laws set to be announced by the Government.
Mon, 07 May, 2018
In 1910, when the seeds of a movement were sown, women couldn’t vote. It was a decade-long fight, writes Sandra McAvoy
Mon, 16 Apr, 2018
Nearly eight out of 10 British companies and public sector bodies pay men more than women as the deadline passed for organisations to report their gender pay gaps.
Thu, 05 Apr, 2018
“Teachers are the primary asset of the Irish education sector and should be paid a fair and living wage” Discuss.
The CEO of Enterprise Ireland has called for more women in leading roles within Irish businesses.
Wed, 03 Jan, 2018
Investment is needed to break cycle of educational inequality, that is according to Barnardos.
Tue, 05 Dec, 2017
Noeline Blackwell suggests practical steps we can take to advance the equality of women and men and to build a society where people can respect each other more and fear each other less.
Wed, 08 Nov, 2017
Colleges are to be given deadlines to improve recruitment and promotion practices that do not support gender equality.
Mon, 06 Nov, 2017
Junior education minister Mary Mitchell O’Connor is under fire from some of her ministerial colleagues, who have described her comments on teachers’ pay as “deeply unhelpful”.
Fri, 25 Aug, 2017
It is hard to think that anyone would oppose the simple, equal-pay-for-equal-work principle. It is a watertight expression of the values around fairness that inform our world.
Teacher unions have welcomed the highlighting of unequal pay by Mary Mitchell O’Connor, even if her view is not supported by others at Cabinet.
Adverts depicting gender stereotypes are set to be banned in the UK with new regulations.
Wed, 26 Jul, 2017
Ireland cannot address the challenges ahead without increasing taxation, Social Justice Ireland has warned.
Tue, 18 Jul, 2017
The predominantly Catholic island nation of Malta is to join much of Western Europe by legalising same-sex marriage.
Wed, 12 Jul, 2017
Rising rents and living costs are pushing people to the brink, according to St Vincent de Paul. And we are living in an increasingly “unequal nation” where the most vulnerable are not benefitting from the recovery.
Wed, 14 Jun, 2017
Thousands of LGBT supporters in dozens of cities across the US are gathering on Sunday for marches and rallies to celebrate gay rights.
Sun, 11 Jun, 2017
Ireland is an unfinished democracy until women are equal to men, according to the Tánaiste.
Wed, 03 May, 2017
Iceland will be the first country in the world to make employers prove they offer equal pay regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexuality or nationality, the government has said.
Wed, 08 Mar, 2017
This week Michael Moynihan tackles the controversial issue of gender equality in sport.
Mon, 06 Mar, 2017
I was at dinner with a group of women recently, all either authors or columnists, and we began to discuss the pressure that writers, female writers in particular, feel under to tell their story.
Sat, 10 Dec, 2016
Sean Healy says that broken societies are bad for business and we now have a real chance of building a society in which everyone can live with dignity and fulfil their potential.
Mon, 10 Oct, 2016
Mon, 19 Sep, 2016
Gay and lesbian couples are continuing to be discriminated against by employers, including the Government, who are refusing them the right to leave their pension to their same-sex widow or widower if they die, it has been claimed.
Mon, 20 Jun, 2016
The President Michael D Higgins has told a gathering of leaders that gender equality is a right and not a gift.
Tue, 24 May, 2016
Would the leaders of 1916 be happy with how we protect our children in the Ireland of today? James Reilly admits there is still a long way to go
Fri, 08 Jan, 2016
Michael Clifford offers up an alphabetical look at 2015.
Sat, 26 Dec, 2015
Fergus Finlay writes an open letter to Minister for Public Expenditure Brendan Howlin.
Tue, 27 Oct, 2015
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