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The Irish Countrywomen's Association (ICA; Irish: Bantracht na Tuaithe) is the largest women's organisation in Ireland, with 6,100 members. [1] Founded in 1910 as the Society of United Irishwomen, it exists to prove social and educational opportunities for women and to improve the standard of rural and urban life in Ireland.
The Employment Equality Act 1977 prohibited most gender discrimination in employment. [22] The Employment Equality Act 1998 upholds gender equality in employment. [30] In Ireland, the female employment rate stretched to 60.6% in 2007 before decreasing to 57.6% in 2009 and it continued to reduce over the next three years to rest at 55.2% by 2012.
Women's organisations based in the Republic of Ireland (1 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Women's organisations based in Ireland" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
The Irish Women Workers' Union was a trade union which was set up at a meeting on 5 September 1911 in Dublin, Ireland. The meeting had been organized by Delia Larkin. The union was created because other trade unions of the time excluded women workers. [1] Members on the steps of Liberty Hall, ca. 1914
On 19 August 1861 Jellicoe, along with Barbara Corlett, founded the Dublin branch of London-based Society for Promoting the Employment of Women to educate women for work outside the home. [3] The response to the Society was overwhelming. In the first couple of years over 500 women registered for classes with the Society. [3]
Women in Research Ireland (WIRI) was established at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) on 8 March 2017, marking International Women's day (IWD). Inspired by her great-grandaunt, Mary O'Toole , who established the Women's City Club of Washington D.C. in 1919, Sadhbh Byrne organized a panel discussion, having recognized an appetite for conversation ...
The NWCI has worked progressively to deepen and broaden its membership base to represent a broad range of women's interests in Ireland. It was and is instrumental in setting the agenda for women's rights in Ireland. [3] Alongside other organisations it advocated against austerity measures aimed at lone parents and other vulnerable groups of women.
And the first women to receive degrees in Ireland or Britain were Alex pupils — six of them successfully studied at Dublin's Royal University from 1891 and at Trinity College Dublin, once it opened its doors to women in 1903." [4] The school was originally situated in the historic Earlsfort Terrace, across from what is now the National ...