- Read more: Menstrual Pain – Current Gaps in Irish Policy Leaving Many Menstruators Behind
Menstrual pain is a common, debilitating, yet under-managed public health issue across Ireland. Addressing menstrual pain requires policy initiatives to dismantle menstrual stigma in all aspects of public life, to reform current education in schools and universities, and to represent the multiple complex conditions that can cause this painful and limiting experience.
- Read more: The Underlying Needs Influencing Young Women’s Contact with the Youth Justice System: Findings from a Rapid Review
Despite increased research on gender in criminology in recent decades, theories to explain youth offending typically do not distinguish between boys and girls. This paper analyses findings from a rapid review of evidence examining the gendered needs and factors influencing girls’ and young women’s contact with the youth justice system, and argues that there is…
- Read more: Gender in Children’s School Lives
In this policy paper, we highlight how patterns and norms within society in relation to gender and sexualities influence children’s experience of primary school. Role modelling, changing gender roles, and family dynamics all shape how children navigate gender within primary school.
- Read more: Women and Men in Ireland Hub
The Central Statistics Office has published an update to the Women and Men in Ireland Hub. This Hub was developed in March 2024, using the latest data from both the CSO and other public service bodies, to provide a comprehensive one-stop-shop for equality data related to women and men in Ireland. The data is broken down…
- Read more: Reporting on Ireland’s Gender Pay Gap
In 2022, Irish employers with more than 250 employees published their first gender pay gap reports. While some employers were already voluntarily disclosing this information, legislation introduced in 2021 made the publication mandatory. The latest gender pay gap data from the CSO (CSO, 2024) shows that the average gap in Ireland in 2022 was 9.3%,…
- Read more: The Financial Context of Farming – Financial barriers to female farm ownership in Ireland
Farming is an important sector in Ireland, and it is the grassroots of the agricultural industry. However, there are stark differences in the ratio of farms owned by men and women in Ireland today. Currently, 87% of Irish farm holders are male whereas females represent only 13% of Irish farm holders (CSO 2020). Women generally…
- Read more: Feminist Climate Justice Report
The Feminist Communities for Climate Justice, a joint project between the National Women’s Council of Ireland and Community Work Ireland, has published a report: Feminist Climate Justice Report. The report was prepared by Dr Fiona Dukelow, Dr Catherine Forde and Edith Busteed from the Department of Applied Social Studies at University College Cork. The report…
- Read more: Gender, Education and Skills Report 2023 – OECD
The OECD published its 2023 Gender, Education and Skills Report on the persistence of gender gaps in education and skills. It is available to read here.
- Read more: Barriers to Investigation of Gender-Based Hate Crimes in the United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland: An Empirical Study
Gender-based hate crimes (GBHC) are an undefined and ambiguous category of hate crime and are thus a rapidly evolving area for academics and policymakers. This policy paper provides clarity on how GBHC are defined, identified, and investigated in both England and Wales, in the UK, and Ireland.
- Read more: Science Foundation Ireland’s Gender Strategy 2016-2020: A Critique
Under Innovation 2020 (ICSTI, 2020) the Irish government committed to almost doubling the science budget from €2.9 billion to €5 billion over a five-year period. In 2020, public expenditure on research and innovation in Ireland was under a billion euro, with just over a billion by Irish higher educational institutions in 2020 (DFHERIS, 2022a). Science…
