Equality
What is the gender pay gap in Northern Ireland?
By Michael Scholes & Aidan Stennett To highlight International Women’s Day, the following article updates our previous blog article examining the gender pay gap in Northern Ireland, by presenting the latest available data. The UK
Women’s economic transition to retirement
While women are increasingly better educated than men, they earn less, feel less financially secure, provide the bulk of unpaid care, have smaller pensions, face greater hardship in later life and struggle to pay for
How big is the gender pay gap in NI’s public and private sectors?
By Aidan Stennett & Eóin Murphy This article examines the gender pay gap in Northern Ireland: what is it, how is it measured and what is the scale across different sectors?
Modernising equality legislation
Following decades of piecemeal development, governments are increasingly seeking to address the common problem of fragmented, uneven and incoherent equality legislation.
Ready for Ageing? How are policy makers approaching the challenges of an ageing population?
Population ageing has been identified as a major societal challenge common to most European countries, particularly in terms of health and social care provision. In view of this, the European Commission has encouraged Member States
Human Rights in Northern Ireland: What if the Human Rights Act were repealed?
The Belfast Agreement in 1998 contained a comprehensive suite of human rights safeguards. These include the introduction of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) to be accessible in Northern Ireland courts, establishment of the