Woman’s work is never done

WE’VE had feminism, we’ve had equality legislation, we’ve had an economic boom with unprecedented employment opportunities and we’ve had two women arrive in Áras an Uachtaráin with husbands and kids in tow.

And yet, despite decades of advancement for women, we have an unusually strong attachment to the traditional role of woman as full-time homemaker.

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development in a recent study calculated that 55% of Irish mothers work outside the home - a figure that puts us 30th lowest out of the organisation’s 34 member countries with only Greece, Chile, Italy and Turkey below.