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 in, let’s take a look at what this legislation has given us, and what it’s […]
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 number of tricky limitations and ended up having to insert custom code into WordPress to […]
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 a moment this year to instead recognise some of the winners and losers of International […]
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 inevitable “best person for the job” rhetoric. A frequent refrain when people mention gender quotas […]