Progress with PayGap.ie
I’ve made some great connections in the last few months with my PayGap.ie portal, and wanted to share some of what I’ve been doing. I visited the Geary Institute of Public Policy to speak at one of their lunchtime seminars…
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Ireland’s Gender Pay Gap Reporting
In 2022, Irish companies with more than 250 employees published their first gender pay gap reports. While some companies were already voluntarily disclosing this information, legislation introduced in 2021 made the publication mandatory. It’s January 2024, and we’re two years…
New Gender Pay Gap Portal
If you’ve been on my site before, chances are you’ve seen the link in the menu to the 2022 gender pay gap database. When I set up this page on my website last year, I had to work around a…
Email your representatives about Facial Recognition Technology
In light of the recent riots in Dublin, Helen McEntee is calling for an expansion in the use of facial recognition technology. As I have discussed on this blog, there are numerous ethical, privacy, and civil liberties issues with facial…
What we owe to each other
I attended a talk recently about migraine, and included in the talk was a demo and a quick blurb about a new-ish medical device to potentially treat migraine and other headache conditions (an external vagus nerve stimulation device, for the…
Facial recognition is terrible at recognising faces.
If you’ve ever used a Snapchat, Instagram, or TikTok filter, you’ve probably used facial recognition technology. It’s the magic that makes it possible for the filters to put the virtual decorations in the right place, it’s why your beauty filter…
IWD 2022 Winners & Losers
International Women’s Day is upon us once again! It seems like only yesterday that I was setting up this blog to discuss some of my experiences as a woman in tech, but here we are again. I thought I’d take…
On Gender Quotas
The Citizens’ Assembly has today voted for a program of reforms on gender equality in Ireland, including some recommendations around extending gender quotas, and ahead of the predictable backlash for gender quotas, I want to share some thoughts on the…
Have you ever been told that your name is incorrect?
Your name is one of the first things you say to people you meet, it is how you present yourself to the world. It is personal and special. But what if you are told that your name is incorrect due…
Amazing Robots
This worksheet accompanied an EU Code Week event in partnership with a local family resource centre. In addition to helping them apply for the funding to purchase several mBots, I designed a worksheet to help the kids figure out how…