Men less satisfied with work-life balance than women
Workplace set-up makes it hard for men to play bigger role in family life
Society has made progress on equality at work but pace of change is glacial
Women have come a long way since the marriage bar but still have a long way to go
Women at work: how to be the great man behind the great woman
Draw up a list of chores and then divide them equally to achieve parity
Working women’s lives: then and now
Passionate about work and about parenting
All employees are equal, but some employees are more equal than others
Ireland has a long way to go before it achieves parity of pay between the sexes
The personal is political: my family’s childcare role-reversal
We never wanted to assume standard roles as parents – so we didn’t
Working mothers: the children’s verdict
Working parents may fret about finding the right kind of childcare but what do their grown-up offspring remember now of those years when mum and dad weren’t around?
Women at work: the cost of childcare
Government should provide comprehensive childcare for pre-school children, say parents in an Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI poll – but don’t ask them to sacrifice child benefit to pay for it
‘Finding my first real grown-up job would be my next goal’
One woman finds that being in her 20s gives her time to think things through
‘As a stay-at-home mother, I don’t feel valued by society’
Working in the home contributes asmuch as that of a ‘working woman’
Working women, stay-at-home mothers, and joint accounts
These days, many couples’ homes are run as two separate financial entities
Women at Work: Is the quick solution the answer to the old problem of under-representation?
Not all women are in favour of quotas to achieve gender balance at work
Financial independence still an issue for Irish women
Strides have been made but women still earn 12.6% less than men
Women’s working lives: then and now
Communications manager Tara Humphreys (40) and former Aer Lingus employee Irene Rooney (78) tell their stories
Women at Work - New series starts today
Marking 40 years since the abolition of the Civil service ‘marriage bar’, a week-long series examines Irish women’s working lives.
Women at Work: The Poll
An Irish Times Ipsos MRBI survey on women and work has found that Irish women are happy with their work-life balance but feel underpaid and undervalued compared with men
Women at Work: 40 years of change
Women were paid about half the salary of men 40 years ago, and from the 1930s to the 1970s many were not allowed to work after they married
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