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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...

A diet book for six-year-old girls: the worst idea ever?

Published: Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Fancy putting your daughter off her food? Then buy her Maggie Goes on a Diet, a children's book aimed - according to Barnes & Noble, one of the many booksellers on whose website it is currently listed - at six-...

Women face 70-year wait for top jobs equality

Published: Tuesday, August 16, 2011

It will take 70 years to achieve parity between men and women in the country's top jobs, according to a report released today by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.The survey Sex and Power 2011, dubbed a "call to arms" by...

More than 5,400 women ‘missing’ from 26,000 top posts in Britain, report finds

Published: Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Equality and Human Rights Commission finds advance towards equality is tortuously slow and subject to frequent reverses.More than 5,400 women are missing from Britain's 26,000 most powerful posts, according to a new report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.The...

How to create a feminist future

Published: Tuesday, August 16, 2011

UK Feminista's 'suffragette school' gave budding activists the tools they need to build a fairer world.School's out for 500 activists as they graduated yesterday from UK Feminista's second summer school. With interest in feminism sparking across the UK, this weekend's ...

Calls to rape helpline rise as budget cuts extend waiting lists

Published: Monday, August 15, 2011

CALLS to a rape crisis helpline rose by almost a fifth last year as it was forced to cut its budget by 20%.Galway Rape Crisis Centre (GRCC) heard from 621 people in 2010, up from 518 the previous year, many who have waited...

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