Pushing for equality: How to tackle the gender gap

Cork’s Lord Mayor joined the country’s top young debaters last night to talk about gender equality not only in Ireland but also in parts of the world where subjugation and slavery continue to blight the lives of girls and women.

Cork’s Lord Mayor joined the country’s top young debaters last night to talk about gender equality not only in Ireland but also in parts of the world where subjugation and slavery continue to blight the lives of girls and women.

He is to be congratulated on contributing to the event, because civic leaders, even locally, have a role to play in promoting what is one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals — stronger leadership and representation for women, the elimination of gender-based violence and, somewhat more problematic, equal distribution of domestic work.