Women at work

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

Men less satisfied with work-life balance than women

Workplace set-up makes it hard for men to play bigger role in family life

Women’s working lives

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

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

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

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?

‘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

Working women, stay-at-home mothers, and joint accounts

These days, many couples’ homes are run as two separate financial entities

‘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’

Women’s working lives: then and now

Communications manager Tara Humphreys (40) and former Aer Lingus employee Irene Rooney (78) tell their stories