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Saturday 28 November 2020
The UNFPA has called for urgent action to be taken to protect girls around the world.
Three in 10 people avoid certain locations for fear of being assaulted, according to a new survey.
Cliodhna McAllister writes about how her experiences with Tinder, dating and porn got her thinking about how we view sexuality and gender in Ireland.
The assembly is meeting this weekend to begin a structured examination of gender and gender stereotyping in Ireland.
It involves a six-part series as well as a podcast series.
‘They’ had previously been named word of the year by the American Dialect Society in 2015.
Maya Forstater lost her job after tweeting that she opposed proposals to reform the UK Gender Recognition Act.
It will discuss the reasons women are still paid less, find it harder to reach top positions, and carry an unequal share of the burden of care.
The data shows girls received more A grades than boys in most subjects.
The charter also envisages that manufacturers will adapt the way their products are advertised.
The assembly will begin its work in October this year.
The document was immediately denounced by LGBT Catholics as contributing to bigotry and violence.
Sinn Féin and Solidarity-People Before Profit were the only parties to see a decrease in the number of female elected candidates.
Two of the main political parties have held training events for women contemplating a life in politics.
Aerach means gay in both the modern sense as well as the original meaning of happy and carefree writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
Just under three in 10 Chief Executive (28%) and Director of Services (26%) roles in local authorities nationally are held by women.
Mary Mitchell O’Connor said the positions will be for world-class academics and are not ‘easy jobs’.
Marriage equality and the Gender Recognition Act were two significant milestones in recent years, but there’s still a lot of work to be done.
A referendum on the topic has been delayed.
Minister Josepha Madigan writes about how she is inspired by Ifra Ahmed and her fight against FGM in Ireland.
“We betrayed the public trust.”
The move comes after 18 months of work following the Waking the Feminists movement.
The World Health Organisation’s revised classification system sees trans-identities added under conditions relating to sexual health.
We talked to the director of Saoirse Ronan’s new film, On Chesil Beach.
The 18-year-old has pretended to be a boy for most of her life.
A total of 78% showed a pay gap in favor of men, while 14% favored women and 8% had no gap.
All companies in the UK with over 250 employees will soon have to publish their stats on gender pay differences.
“People don’t speak about it unless a victim of this heinous crime speaks out.”
The former president has called on Pope Francis to address gender inequality in the Catholic Church.
Women earn 14.9% less than men in Spain.
The former president also called the Catholic Church an “empire of misogyny”.
The National Women’s Council will be meeting with the BAI on the issue.
EU figures show that in Ireland, women currently earn around 13.9% less than men
It has run a number of female-focused recruitment campaigns and says that gender diversity is an operational imperative.
A report looked into gender equality and pay at the national broadcaster.
An ESRI report said this was because women were more likely to work in part-time jobs or smaller firms.
The equality reports come following a series of high profile gender discrimination cases taken against the university by female academic staff in recent years.
The deputy leader of Sinn Féin writes for TheJournal.ie on her frustration with the ‘arrogance and entitlement’ of establishment parties.
Irish publisher Siobhan Parkinson of Little Island tells us why they decided to publish the book.
A major UK retailer is doing just that.
ONE OF THE most eagerly anticipated nights of the Irish TV year is finally here, with not even 2020 being able to stop the broadcast of the Late Late Toy Show.
Covid-19 restrictions mean it will be a different kind of show this year, but it still promises to be a special night – perhaps more so than usual given the year we’ve had.
For the day that’s in it, we’re asking: Will you watch the Late Late Toy Show?
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