What we do
The Central purpose of the National Women's Council of Ireland is to promote women's rights and women's equality.
We need equality for women because:
- Men dominate all our public institutions, our cultural, social, economic and legal infrastructures
- Gender is a basic structuring principal of the labour market, placing women in a disadvantaged economic position
- Women are relatively absent from formal politics and local government decision-making structures, marginalising the concerns and interests of women as citizens
- Unequal power relations across the spectrum from the public domain to the privacy of the home, place women in a subordinate position to men.
The work of the NWCI falls under the following areas;