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NWCI and Age Action call for pension reform

Published: Thursday, December 15, 2016

NWCI and Age Action came together to urge TDs to support a motion from Deputy John Brady calling for pension equality. While both organisations welcomed the €5 increase to weekly pension payments in Budget 2017, we also emphasised the need...

NWCI welcomes gender quotas for State sponsored sporting boards

Published: Monday, December 12, 2016

The National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) has welcomed the news that a minimum of 30% of all sporting boards which receive State funding must be made up of women or else they will face financial sanctions. Orla O...

Welcome to our four new group members!

Published: Wednesday, December 07, 2016

As we close out 2016, we would like to welcome four new group members to NWCI. Herizon is a not-for-profit online forum for female leadership, entrepreneurship, gender equality and gender partnership. They post weekly articles, studies, interviews on female leadership in...

Be part of the story in 2017 and join as a member of NWCI

Published: Wednesday, December 07, 2016

The election of Donald Trump as US President shows that we can never take achievements for women’s equality for granted. We need to disucss the real-life stories of women in Ireland and show the benefits of...

Age Action and NWCI Call on TDs To Support Dáil Motion On Pension Equality

Published: Tuesday, December 06, 2016

Age Action and the National Women’s Council of Ireland have urged TDs to support a motion from Deputy John Brady calling for pension equality. The motion will be debated in the Dáil on Wednesday 7 December. Both...

We can’t continue to compensate women for their suffering

Published: Wednesday, November 30, 2016

The National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) welcomes the offer of compensation by Minister for Health, Simon Harris, to Amanda Mellet arising from ruling of the UN Committee on Human Rights. The Government must now take action to...

Let the Citizens’ Assembly know you support Repeal of the Eighth Amendment

Published: Thursday, November 24, 2016

The Citizens’ Assembly commenced its deliberations on 15 October 2016. The Assembly comprises of the chairperson, Ms Justice Mary Laffoy, a sitting Judge of the Supreme Court, and 99 citizens randomly selected on the basis of being representative of the Irish electorate...

Lack of action will cause the pay gap to increase further

Published: Thursday, November 17, 2016

The National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) this morning responded to the Morgan McKinley research which shows that the gender pay gap in the professional sector in Ireland is 20%, saying that unless immediate action is taken, we will...

#FeministAgenda: AGM morning event discusses priorities for women’s equality

Published: Tuesday, October 18, 2016

What should be part of our #FeministAgenda over the next four years? This was the topic of NWCI's AGM morning event that brought together almost 100 members and friends on the 9th September. At the event, Tánaiste and...

NWCI holds new series of #FemFest workshops

Published: Tuesday, October 18, 2016

In the lead up to #FemFest, our major national conference on young women, NWCI is holding workshops with groups of young women aged 16 - 24 on the topic of feminism. 100 years after the 1916 Easter Rising, we're looking forward to 2116, and...