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Women’s gynaecological health in Northern Ireland

21st December 202121st December 2021 Sophie Hughes Women and Equalities

Reading Time: 9 minutes Women’s gynaecological health refers to, menstruation, sexual health, fertility and menopause. Health inequalities experienced by women have long been apparent,

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Employment & Labour Market Equality

Northern Ireland Gender Pay Gap: a 2021 update

8th March 20218th November 2021 Michael Scholes

Reading Time: 7 minutes By Michael Scholes & Aidan Stennett To highlight International Women’s Day, the following article updates our previous blog article examining

A graph comparing Northern Ireland median hourly pay by industry and gender for 2019

Employment & Labour Market Equality

Northern Ireland Gender Pay Gap – 2020 update

6th March 202029th June 2020 Aidan Stennett Gender equality (including pay gap)

Reading Time: 7 minutes By Michael Scholes & Aidan Stennett To highlight International Women’s Day, the following article updates our previous blog article examining

A bar graph showing the gender pay gap in Northern Ireland since 1998

Employment & Labour Market Equality

What is the Gender Pay Gap in Northern Ireland in 2019?

8th March 201919th June 2019 Michael Scholes Gender equality (including pay gap)

Reading Time: 5 minutes By Michael Scholes & Aidan Stennett To highlight International Women’s Day, this blog article updates a previous one examining the

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Democracy and Government Equality

Who runs Northern Ireland? Taking stock of gender and power in Northern Ireland

8th March 20196th March 2020 Michael Potter Women and Equalities

Reading Time: 4 minutes Please note that more up-to-date statistics on gender representation can be found in the RaISe research paper Who Runs Northern

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Employment & Labour Market Equality

What is the gender pay gap in Northern Ireland?

8th March 20188th April 2019 Michael Scholes Gender equality (including pay gap)

Reading Time: 6 minutes By Michael Scholes & Aidan Stennett Please note: we have posted a new version of this blog article using the

Economy Equality

Women’s economic transition to retirement

5th October 201714th November 2019 Sarah McKenna Gender equality (including pay gap), Women and the economy

Reading Time: 6 minutes While women are increasingly better educated than men, they earn less, feel less financially secure, provide the bulk of unpaid

Infographic illustrating the scale of the gender pay gap in Northern Ireland

Employment & Labour Market Equality

How big is the gender pay gap in NI’s public and private sectors?

8th March 20178th April 2019 Aidan Stennett Gender equality (including pay gap)

Reading Time: 3 minutes By Aidan Stennett & Eóin Murphy Please note: we have posted a new version of this blog article using the most

Equality

Modernising equality legislation

1st June 201630th May 2017 Jane Campbell

Reading Time: 3 minutes Following decades of piecemeal development, governments are increasingly seeking to address the common problem of fragmented, uneven and incoherent equality

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