THERE is incontrovertible evidence that work and career opportunities strongly influence the way women deal with crisis pregnancies, research reveals.

WOMEN faced with unplanned pregnancies worry most about their ability to continue in work and may opt for abortion on the strength of those fears.

LATE LATE SHOW host Pat Kenny has fallen foul of equality watchdogs for stereotyping children during the programme’s annual toy show.

Dr Margret Fine-Davis, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies at Trinity College Dublin, gives her views on the Irish Examiner/Lansdowne Market Research National Childcare Survey in a Q&A with Catherine Shanahan.