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Published: Tuesday, October 27, 2026
NWC in partnership with AkiDwA, is seeking an experienced researcher for "Holding Up the System: Lived Experiences of Migrant Women Working in the Care Sector". The project will explore how racism and sexism intersect to shape the working conditions of...
Published: Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Dozens of new organisations are springing up around the UK, campaigning on issues from lads' mags to benefit cuts.It was the lads' mags - with semi-naked women in suggestive poses on their covers - being sold at eye level...
Published: Tuesday, April 03, 2012
LISTENING TO any of the Republic's major current affairs radio programmes, one could be forgiven for thinking that women, by and large, are not interested in the news or have nothing interesting to say on the serious topics of our...
Local woman Catherine Cooke, Co-ordinator of Foyle Women's Information Network, has recently returned from Vienna in Austria, where she was invited to speak on a global platform on the role of Northern Irish Women. The trip highlighted how the empowerment...
Published: Monday, April 02, 2012
IRELAND HAS CLIMBED two places in the World Economic Forum's gender equality league table to sixth place.The Global Gender Gap Report measures equality in the areas of politics, education, employment and health.Ireland still ranks behind Iceland, Norway, Finland,...
Published: Thursday, March 29, 2012
ALEX GARITAThu, 22 Mar, 2012 The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women meets every year for two weeks to review progress on implementation of the Fourth World Conference on Women's Beijing Platform for Action adopted in 1995. The theme of this...
"DO YOU KNOW what it's like to represent a billion human beings every day you walk out of your house? To be looked at as the representative of an entire world religion?"A world religion?"Do you know what that's...
Published: Wednesday, March 28, 2012
FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION has been banned in Ireland.A bill outlawing the practice was passed by the Seanad this afternoon having already gone through all the stages in the Dáil.As well as prohibiting the practice, the new legislation...
Poet and essayist Adrienne Rich, a feminist literary figure celebrated as much for deeply personal reflections on her own life as for sometimes-biting social commentary, has died at age 82, family members said on Wednesday.Rich, who received a galaxy of...
Published: Thursday, March 22, 2012
INSIDE the last three years, a reported 460 women from Limerick travelled to the UK to have their pregnancies terminated. The figures were obtained by the Limerick Post as calls were being made for the Government to tackle the promised abortion...
Published: Tuesday, March 20, 2012
The O'Callaghan Hotels group has declined to comment after the Equality Tribunal ordered it to pay €315,000 to a former employee.The tribunal found that the hotel chain had dismissed its former Director of Sales and Marketing, Julie O'Brien, because she...
Published: Monday, March 19, 2012
Women are using social media to challenge the patriarchy of the Mormon churchOn her 30th birthday, which she celebrated in New York City, D'Arcy Benincosa did the wildest thing she could think of: she ordered a cup of coffee. The...
Female voters have been hit hard by public sector cuts and NHS changes, so the budget's gender effect deserves close scrutinyOn last week's trip to Washington, David Cameron brought along the usual team of political correspondents, and one less likely...
Published: Thursday, March 15, 2012
Less than a quarter of voices in radio news and current affairs broadcasting are women, according to a survey conducted by the National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI).The survey forms part of the NCWI's submission to the Broadcasting Authority...
Published: Wednesday, March 14, 2012
THE GOVERNMENT WAS called on today to address the subject of reparation for survivors of the Magdalene laundries.Ireland's human rights record is being examined at the United Nations in Geneva today as the country bids to become a member...
Published: Monday, March 12, 2012
Action on X, which is campaigning for legislation in line with the Supreme Court ruling in the X Case, as a minimum first step towards the achievement of the right of choice for women in Ireland, is supporting the Bill...
Published: Tuesday, March 06, 2012
International Women's Day (8 March) is an occasion marked by women's groups around the world. It is designated in many countries as a national holiday. When women on all continents, often divided by national boundaries and by ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic...
Published: Thursday, March 01, 2012
Women are still earning substantially less than men in Ireland despite efforts to promote equality in the workplace.According to a study by the European Commission, women here earn on average 17.1 per cent less than men.The study also indicated...
Having already testified to a government commission, victims of sexual violence eschew new process based on traditional justiceThe women sat on plastic chairs arranged in a circle, some breast feeding, others with small children at their feet. This is their...
FIGURES RELEASED BY the Rape Crisis Network have detailed the outcome of pregnancies which occured as a result of rape in Ireland.A total of 1,545 survivors of sexual violence attended rape crisis centres around the country in 2010. Of these, 75 became...
Published: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
The 56th meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women opened at the United Nations in New York on 27th February 2012 and will continue until 9th March.This annual event brings together up to 8,000 women from all four corners...
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