Reproductive leave should be introduced for miscarriage and IVF Bill would help open up conversations around reproductive health in Ireland
Mon, Mar 8, 2021, 01:30 Ivana Bacik, Alison Gilliland
Women have to take annual leave to recover from the heartache and the physical effects of miscarriage. Photograph: iStock
International Women’s Day has a long and proud history, since its origins in the socialist and labour movements of the US and Germany during the first decade of the 20th century. The designated date of March 8th, formally adopted by the United Nations in 1977, has been marked worldwide in many different ways over the decades. In Ireland, for many years it was a day of protest; a date upon which feminist campaigners would draw attention to the mul