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Women to make up just 15pc of election candidates

Published: Monday, January 31, 2011

WOMEN will account for just 15pc of the candidates running in the general election -- despite making up half of the population.Despite promises from all parties to tackle the under-representation of women, there are just 56 females among the 381 candidates...

Next government ‘must legislate for limited abortion’

Published: Monday, December 20, 2010

It is now up to a new government to legislate for limited abortion, leading feminist and academic Ailbhe Smyth told a pro-choice rally in Dublin yesterday.The group which organised the rally, Feminist Open Forum, told the few dozen people...

Cuts will condemn families to poverty, say campaigners

Published: Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Drastic cuts will condemn families on the breadline to a life of poverty, hunger and homelessness, charities and campaigners claimed tonight.Children's rights activist Norah Gibbons claimed cuts on the poorest who survive on low incomes and social welfare will...

Budget to hit highest and lowest earners

Published: Monday, December 06, 2010

5 December 2010 By Susan Lynch in the Sunday Business PostThe abolition of certain tax reliefs and cuts in social welfare and the minimum wage will draw the ire of both ends of the earning spectrumWhile it is almost inconceivable to imagine...

Families to be hit hardest by tax hikes revealed in four-year plan

Published: Monday, November 29, 2010

FAMILIES face the prospect of larger income tax increases than single earners being imposed on them over the life of the Government's four-year plan.Figures supplied by the Government last week in the four-year plan, known as the National Recovery...

Too twee for Mammy

Published: Saturday, November 13, 2010

Our female TDs and Senators held a meeting this week to discuss the fraught issue of women in politics and how their numbers in parliament can be increased. The event was organised by Minister of State for Equality Mary White...

PwC investigates as laddish e-mails go viral

Published: Saturday, November 13, 2010

SEXIST E-MAILS by male employees about young female colleagues in PricewaterhouseCoopers in Dublin were being viewed on internet sites around the globe yesterday.The series of e-mails, that included staff photographs of the women, were circulated within the firm at...

The Perfect Red Dress for making a statement

Published: Tuesday, November 09, 2010

"MADE in Dagenham" is not remotely what you would call a fashion film. Set in 1968, in an automobile factory outside London, it is a dramatized account of the landmark labor dispute between the Ford Motor Company and a group of...

Invest a little in deprived children and save a fortune on super-prison

Published: Monday, October 18, 2010

HOMELESSNESS. Poverty. Hunger. Cold. Fear. Isolation. Illness - both physical and mental.These are features of modern Ireland, whether we like it or not. They are symptoms - the most telling symptoms - of our failure to take advantage of...

Women’s role in Catholic Church

Published: Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Madam, - I write on behalf of a group of women who met on Sunday, September 26th to share our thoughts and feelings on the position of women in the Catholic church today. We believe the time has now come...

Irish women

Published: Monday, October 04, 2010

It wasn't just men being stupid and irresponsible during the Celtic Tiger years, says Pat Fitzpatrick, and if it wasn't for male testosterone levels we would all still be living in cavesHow long before we see a gender-studies course in...

Off Message By Jennifer O’Connell

Published: Saturday, September 18, 2010

Dear daughter: I wanted to write you a note of apology for the ways in which my generation has so dismally failed yours. Right now - through your four yearold eyes - the world is an uncomplicated place.When you...

Women opting out of the workplace is not a result of choice, but of a lack of it

Published: Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Motherhood, the bête noire of 1970s feminism, is emerging as the raison d'être for 2010 feminismWHAT'S REALLY going on with women like Olwyn Enright, who quit a full-time job and head for home? It's convenient to view her move...

Miriam and Olwyn show why women avoid politics

Published: Monday, August 30, 2010

WHEN oh when is the big shiny penny going to drop with the XY chromosomes that dominate the governing part of the body politic in this country?Could the various hand-wringers in Leinster House perhaps stop moaning about the sad...

Why men who use prostitutes can be as dangerous as Larry Murphy

Published: Monday, August 23, 2010

What is it that men in Ireland want, sexually, from women? Significant numbers, it seems, want to be able to have a girlfriend or a wife, with whom to enjoy socially accepted intimate relationships, while at the same time secretly...

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