Gender Equality

NO ENCORE returns with an absolutely packed episode for your weekend. Or weekday. It's up to you when you tune in, really. This week, we look at the recently published Gender Disparity Data Report, which asks serious questions of Irish…

We think every day should be a day to celebrate women, but this Sunday, the whole world joins in to recognise what still needs to be done to achieve gender equality, but also to recognise women's wonderfulness; International Women's Day.…

It was a typical Monday morning, and I mentally readied myself for the potential 15 minute transport delay that had integrally formulated part of my daily experience. The struggle was real. However both myself and the other old age…

The National Women’s Council of Ireland recently called for the introduction of gender quotas in Irish local elections due to the fact that only 21% of the country’s 949 local councillors are female. In this argument, they pointed out that…

What used to be the exception is now the rule: women work. In fact, in today's world, many women have become the primary wage earners in their household, either because they earn more than their spouse, as 49% of women now do, or because…

It was August 2002, and 17 year old Leona was curled on a trolley in A&E, rocking back and forth with pain, no energy left to cry anymore.  She had been admitted the night before with debilitating pain in her lower abdomen.  This was…

No other medium lets you become a lizard-person on a quest to save the world from certain doom. You can’t pick up a book or put in a DVD and instantly assume control of an Italian plumber trying to save the princess of a Mushroom Kingdom.…

It’s 2014. Twitter is rising among the ranks of the most used social media platforms. Out of the millions of hashtags created, one began to catch fire some years back. It stood for sexism. It stood for oppression. It was called Gamergate.…

I've been studying Law for three years. The only difference this time around is that I’m doing it in Germany, not Ireland. And although there are many things that differentiate the two countries - efficient transport systems and an almost…

Last week we had Aoife, a 16 year old Transition Year student, doing work experience here with us in HeadStuff HQ. She was interested in our work and we were interested in her ideas, so we decided to publish some of the articles she worked…