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Prostitution infiltrating rural areas, says agency

Published: Monday, August 22, 2011

TECHNOLOGY HAS aided the spread of prostitution into rural Ireland with pimps and traffickers now able to monitor women working in small communities, women's agency Ruhama has said.The agency, which helps victims of trafficking and women involved in prostitution,...

Is it time for Irish women to go Dutch?

Published: Monday, August 22, 2011

With part-time work the norm among young Dutch mothers, is it any surprise that they are happier than their counterparts in other countries around the world?FOR OUT-OF-WORK Irish women, including victims of the current economic malaise, Wieteke Spruijt-de Boer's...

Review of The Female Man

Published: Monday, August 22, 2011

Take a moment and ask yourself whether you would hide a secret army of women to fight in the battle against men in a distant alternative future.The Female Man by Joanna Russ asks just that question. I picked up...

Women’s Resource and Development Agency launch new website

Published: Monday, August 22, 2011

The Women's Resource and Development Agency have launched a brand new website revealing a new online identity and new social media communications strategy aimed at attracting a wider audience to the Agency.The new look website has a fresh vibrant...

Ruhama launch 2010 Statistics Report

Published: Monday, August 22, 2011

Ruhama have launched their 2010 Statistic Report.An audio file of the testimony "an escort's story" will shortly be available on their website www.ruhama.ie.Click here to read the report in full.

Ireland’s sex trade ‘thriving’

Published: Sunday, August 21, 2011

About 1,000 women are working as prostitutes in Ireland every day, an agency which supports those in the sex trade said.Ruhama said it worked with 204 women last year, up 4% on the previous year, while the number of new victims of...

Gender quotas to be considered for state boards

Published: Sunday, August 21, 2011

THE Justice Minister is considering gender quotas to ensure there are more women in important decision-making positions on state boards.Data being compiled for the Department of Justice is expected to show women make up just 34% of state board positions...

Arifa Akbar: Don’t listen to the lipstick feminists

Published: Sunday, August 21, 2011

I remember going to the launch of one of Shere Hite's sex surveys which focused on female desire, and being stunned not by what she said but by how she looked. She was heavily made-up and wore a spray-on dress...

Gender pay gap has widened

Published: Sunday, August 21, 2011

The pay gap between men and women in Ireland has widened, official figures have revealed.The difference in average wage levels had been decreasing for years but the trend has reversed since 2007.The latest report by the Central Statistics Office ...

Wal-Mart women to sue individually

Published: Sunday, August 21, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO - Women who were part of a massive class action lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc will have until the end of October to file individual lawsuits against the company, a US judge ruled.Women who say the company...

Profile of a revolutionary: Maryam Al-Khawaya

Published: Sunday, August 21, 2011

Earlier this year a wave of revolutions rolled across the Middle East.Orchestrated via text messages on BlackBerries and call-outs on Facebook and Twitter, many of the uprisings were driven by young people no longer willing to tolerate their country's...

TD criticises male culture in Dáil

Published: Thursday, August 18, 2011

THE CULTURE of Irish men was sometimes reflected poorly in the Dáil, Anne Ferris, recently elected Labour TD for Wicklow, told the Parnell Summer School yesterday."Indeed we need only look back a few weeks to the comment made...

France’s face veil ban takes effect today

Published: Thursday, August 18, 2011

A CONTROVERSIAL BAN on face veils will come into effect in France today, with women wearing certain face coverings in public places risking fines of €150 and being obliged to attend a "citizenship" course.The ban will apply to Islamic dress...

Islam Ireland welcomes debate on burqa but government has no plans for ban

Published: Thursday, August 18, 2011

THE ISLAMIC CULTURAL Centre of Ireland has welcomed the opportunity to debate the issue of banning the burqa in this country but the Department of Justice has said there are no proposals to do so.Responding to calls from the...

On the issue of ‘moral recklessness’ in ‘sexsomnia’ men

Published: Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Vera Baird QC, Co-Director of Astraea: Gender Justice (Research and Education), has been looking at recent rape acquittals where the defence was 'sexsomnia'.A relatively new rape defence is that some men can be wholly without responsibility for sexual assaults...

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