Maresa Fagan: Societal and cultural change needed to redress inequalities facing women

Despite some progress, there is a palpable and growing frustration that the female voice was missing or not heard over the past 12 months, writes Maresa Fagan

While more women than men graduate from third level education, a 14% gender pay gap means that women, in general, work for free for almost two months of the year. That is just one of the paradoxes of life today for Mná na h’Éireann.

More women are working and more have been appointed to company boards than ever before but there is still a way to go to bridge the gender gaps and inequalities that continue to face the women of Ireland today.

While more women than men graduate from third level education, a 14% gender pay gap means that women, in general, work for free for almost two months of the year. That is just one of the paradoxes of life today for Mná na h’Éireann.