Glass ceiling a visible obstacle for many women

IRELAND is bottom of the EU league when it comes to appointing women as judges, university professors, company directors and chief executives.

Our record in appointing female production and operations managers is also dismal: we are second from the bottom. Equally so when it comes to political decision making, with the number of female politicians at national government level the fourth lowest in Europe.

Women make up a bigger proportion of members in the European Parliament, which is also true for Ireland with a third of our MEPs female.