Earlier today, as I sat down in front of my laptop to start working, I marvelled at how quiet the house was and how I was currently sipping a coffee that was – miraculously – still hot. The contrast to the past few months of homeschooling – much the same as all those months of […]
5 years ago
Keeping children alive and fed and entertained and safe is hard work. It is hard work for those of us who do it alongside a job outside the house, and it is hard work for the mums (and dads) who do it as a fulltime job inside the house too. In a single day, your […]
5 years ago
Mothers are paid an average of three percent less for every child they have compared to their female colleagues who don’t have children, according to a French study. Not surprisingly, the study also found that fathers suffer no penalty at all. The research, conducted by the Université Paris-Saclay, looked at 16 years of data from […]
7 years ago
What advice does one of Ireland’s top business women have for entrepreneurs? Go big, if you want to take the biscuit. This week on The Capital B business podcast, the co-founder and marketing/innovation director of the East Coast Bakehouse and RTE’s newest Dragon’s Den panelist, Alison Cowzer, shared some great advice for budding entrepreneurs. And admitted that […]
9 years ago
This week, yet another gender pay scandal hit the headlines as news broke that Emma Walmsley, the new CEO of pharmaceutical powerhouse GlaxoSmithKline, will be paid 25% less than her male predecessor, Andrew Witty. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the word ‘scandal’ as “a circumstance or action that offends propriety or established moral conceptions.” In this […]
9 years ago
More than 7,000 women in Ireland earned an average of €3,489 each by hosting a guest or renting out their home through Airbnb last year. According to the first dedicated Airbnb study of female hosts, released this week to coincide with International Women’s Day, women make up 60% of the local host community in Ireland; a […]
9 years ago