Gender Equality

I was twenty when this smartly dressed, suave mannered, thirty-something year old man first verbally harassed me in Rathmines as I walked to town from college. He had stopped me to ask for directions and as I started to think out loud,…

A man is on life support this evening at the Mater Hospital in Dublin, where, despite the complete loss of brain stem function, doctors have detected viable sperm in his left testicle and, as the potential for human life is still present,…

Can a feminist wear make up? Feminism is a delicate term. A delicate term reserved often for strong women. Women who, like their pubic hair, will be plucked and tugged and torn from their roots, and grow back stronger each time. A…

“I am pro-life. With the exception of a doctor’s determination that the mother’s life would end if the pregnancy continued. I believe that no matter what mistakes we make as a society, we cannot condone ending another life.” “As a country…

This week, the good people of Twitter talked about Charlie Sheen, braced themselves for Storm Barney, and celebrated International Men's Day (kind of). We also watched as it was reported that gunmen had stormed a hotel in Mali, holding at…

Since 2013, UNICEF has celebrated International Day of the Girl Child (or Day of the Girl) to emphasise the gender based issues faced by young girls, and to promote global gender equality. This year, October 11th saw the Children’s Fund…

Lately, there’s been a lot of talk about breastfeeding. People are writing about it, websites are making polls about it, women are doing it. Even so, it seems that breastfeeding has been branded a ‘non-issue.’ Women have been breastfeeding…

It is a wonderful time to be Irish. We have just become the first country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage by popular vote. The question was put to the people, and the people answered emphatically. Way to go Ireland! Friday, the…