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This Friday, December 14, will mark 100 years since women first exercised their right to vote and to stand for national election in Ireland. To mark this...
An online campaign by Ted Baker employees has called on the company to end “forced hugging” and “a culture that leaves harassment unchallenged”. Staff accused founder and...
New social enterprise, launched to empower single parents through education, has secured over €500,000 in philanthropic funding. Empower the Family, a not-for-profit organisation set up by Deborah Somorin,...
An event taking place in Dublin tomorrow will focus on how teachers and educators can avoid burnout and mind their own mental health while working with adult...
The Government has today unveiled ‘First 5’, a cross-Departmental strategy to support babies, young children and their families. Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, Minister for Children and...
That’s just one of the targets of the Gender Equality Action Plan for Higher Education Institutions launched by Government today to tackle gender disparity in the sector....
Dress for Success Dublin are calling on people all around Ireland to take action on November 13th for their third annual #WorkEqual Day. Dress for Success Dublin, the...
Staff at Google offices around the world are staging a series of walkouts today in protest at the company’s treatment of women. The employees are demanding several...
I Wish has released its annual survey of more than 2,200 Transition Year students, which shows secondary school girls and their teachers still don’t know enough about...
That was the reaction by Tanya Ward, Chief Executive of the Children’s Rights Alliance to yesterday’s Budget announcements. An additional two weeks paid parental leave from November next...
WorkJuggle & RECRUITERS have joined forces to answer your questions on the new world of work at an event in Dublin this October. Aimed at millennials, the...
The world’s largest Women in Tech Event Series is coming to Dublin on November 15th and the line-up is a stellar one. Driving forces in the world...
Tennis legend Billie Jean King has waded in to the worldwide debate, after Serena Williams alleged she was the victim of sexism during her US Open final...
Government plans to hold a referendum in October to remove a constitutional reference on the women’s place in the home have been scuppered by an Oireachtas committee,...
Mothers who face high childcare costs work fewer hours, according to new research published by the ESRI and Pobal. Key findings from the report were that: Parents spent...
Women over the age of 35 in Ireland have lower participation rates in the workforce than their EU counterparts. That’s according to the National Recruitment Federation (NRF),...
Diversity and inclusion is the theme of this year’s Chambers Ireland’s CSR Awards, and the projects that made the shortlist are far more than a distant nod...
A prestigious Japanese medical school has confessed to systematically rigging its entrance exams against women, in a scandal that has highlighted the nation’s deep problem with gender...
Lunar – a charity that tackles the impact of menstruation on access to education in developing nations – has been declared the winning project at the STEAM+ICE...