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Published: Tuesday, July 01, 2025
After 23 years working in the National Women’s Council (NWC), the Director, Orla O’Connor, will step down from her role in the coming months to take up a new position as Executive Director of St...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Published: Friday, October 14, 2016
NWCI's offers individuals and groups the opportunity to be part of a bigger women's movement and join the campaign for women's equality in Ireland. Here is some feedback from one of our newest members. "I'...
NWCI's member group Symantec Technology Women's Network is delighted to announce that Symantec are seeking to rename half of their meeting rooms after female role models and half after male role models in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts...
The World Congress on Women’s Mental Health is coming to Dublin next March 2017. There will be symposia and workshop presentatoins by speakers from across the globe, on a variety of themes related to women’s mental health....
NWCI has launched Fill the Gap - NWCI's Pre 2017 Budget Submission on 21 September 2016. Recession and austerity have had a disproportionate economic impact on women in Ireland. The Gender Pay Gap has widened from 12.6% to 14.4% while the Gender Pension Gap...
Congratulations to our new Executive Board which was elected at our AGM. Frances Byrne, committed feminist and communications professional, was elected as the new Chairperson and Sheila Dickson from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Orgnisaiton was re-elected as Deputy Chairperson....
“We should not pose a question ‘what can this treaty [CEDAW] do for women in Ireland and everywhere else’ but reverse it and ask ourselves ‘what do we plan to do with this Convention in order...
Feminist Futures - NWCI's Annual Report 2015 is now available on our website. It outlines NWCI's key achievements, campaigns and events throughout the year. Read full version of Feminist Futures - NWCI Annual Report 2015
NWCI has welcomed the announcement of a comprehensive childcare package as part of Budget 2017 as a significant change of direction that has the potential to have a huge positive impact on women’s equality if further funding will be...
NWCI has launched its new Strategic Plan Driving Women's Equality 2016-2020 at our AGM on 9th September 2016. The plan build on the progress made by NWCI for women's equality in Ireland and sets out our vision for the...
Published: Wednesday, October 12, 2016
The National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) is the leading national women’s membership organisation seeking equality for women. We represent 180 member groups as well as a wide range of individual members from a diversity of backgrounds,...
Published: Tuesday, October 11, 2016
The National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) welcomes the announcement of a comprehensive childcare package as part of Budget 2017 as a significant change of direction that has the potential to have a huge positive impact on women&rsquo...
Published: Friday, October 07, 2016
Violeta Neubauer, independent women’s human rights and gender equality expert from Slovenia is in Dublin today to address a seminar being held by the National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) on the United Nations Convention on...
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