Recent Gender Equality Developments
A video clip from the first meeting of the Citizen’s Assembly established in July 2019 with the specific remit to advance gender equality.
Dr.Anne-Marie McGauran, Research Associate, Trinity College Dublin talks about recent gender equality developments, social norms and attitudes:
– Higher education – Gender Action Plan
– Education in general – a commitment to increase the number of girls taking STEM subjects at leaving certificate level and taking apprenticeships; a focus on gender stereotyping
-Sport – action plan to increase the number of and visibility of women in sport
-Equality budgeting
– Film and television
– Domestic violence – gender-based violence
– The position of men
– Pay inequality, participation in public life and women in work
– Gender balance on state boards, large companies and in Dail elections
– Senior positions in the civil service
– Caring- the introduction of paid paternity and paid parents’ leave; the national childcare scheme; Home Caring Periods Scheme; individualising welfare payments
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