A TD says she left her home for a week after getting threatening phone calls in the middle of the night.

The country’s largest property website, daft.ie, has been ordered to block any discriminatory advertising from appearing on its website.

Within a year, a pay gap emerged between male and female graduates, new figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show.

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).

Education Minister Joe McHugh has said that he cannot commit to a timeline to end pay inequality for teachers.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Removing the gender pay gap will be the next big issue that must be tackled in society, a Fianna Fáil senator has claimed.

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.

Rena Buckley has won 18 All-Ireland medals. By any criteria, she has earned a place in the Irish sporting pantheon.

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.

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.

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.

Teachers are warning they may be forced to go on strike if progress is not made on the pay equality issue.

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.

In 1910, when the seeds of a movement were sown, women couldn’t vote. It was a decade-long fight, writes Sandra McAvoy

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.

“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.

Investment is needed to break cycle of educational inequality, that is according to Barnardos.

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.

Colleges are to be given deadlines to improve recruitment and promotion practices that do not support gender equality.

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”.

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.

Ireland cannot address the challenges ahead without increasing taxation, Social Justice Ireland has warned.

The predominantly Catholic island nation of Malta is to join much of Western Europe by legalising same-sex marriage.

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.

Thousands of LGBT supporters in dozens of cities across the US are gathering on Sunday for marches and rallies to celebrate gay rights.

Ireland is an unfinished democracy until women are equal to men, according to the Tánaiste.

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.

This week Michael Moynihan tackles the controversial issue of gender equality in sport.

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.

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.

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.

The President Michael D Higgins has told a gathering of leaders that gender equality is a right and not a gift.

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

Michael Clifford offers up an alphabetical look at 2015. 

Fergus Finlay writes an open letter to Minister for Public Expenditure Brendan Howlin.