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A week of judging women
Three days, three hashtags: Malala, Slanegirl and RoseofTralee It has been a strange week so far for women in Ireland – a wake-up call on how women are viewed, how women are judged. It also raises a...
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School costs & the double-income contradiction
This week, the Irish Parenting Bloggers are writing about back-to-school costs, a topic that’s causing frustration for some and fear for many more around the country this week. In our house, we are at...
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Beauty pageant babies
So have you entered your daughter in the Universal Royalty Beauty Pageant this weekend? Me neither. Kind of a no-brainer. Kind of not worth writing a blog post really, as there’s nothing to debate, the...
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Prime Time childcare exposé – one year on
Exactly a year ago today, RTE’s Prime Time documentary “A breach of trust” aired video footage that, to use a well-worn but entirely apt description, shocked the nation. We witnessed a child being...
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Is Ireland child-friendly?
Are we a child-friendly society – do we embrace children and their parents in all areas of 21st century Ireland? Or do we corral them into suitable times and places, conveniently out of the path of...
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The impossible economy of childcare
I remember the first time my Laser card was rejected. It was 2010, and I was just back at work after my second maternity leave. I was trying to buy some groceries, and couldn’t understand why my card...
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Why Are Straight Women Earning Less?
“Maybe sexist dynamics within heterosexual couples cause straight women to slip down the earning scale. Lesbians will never view their career as second fiddle to a male partner’s because they don’t...
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The Big Message in The Big Short
I remember standing in Oasis with my sister in August 2008, looking at a shirt-dress that I really liked. I put it back on the rail. “There’s a recession coming,” I said to my sister. She had heard the...
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Everyday Sexism and Girling Up our Kids
I’ve never personally experienced any sexism. Or at least not as far as I can remember, which may mean it has happened, and I’ve brushed it off as a normal, unremarkable, everyday thing. And that’s...
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I have a question
If you’re reading this, and you have children, do you work fewer hours per day or days per week than your partner? And if so, do you do that because you want to, or because you feel you’ve been forced...
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