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Therapist Bernie Hackett celebrates women on IWD and reminds them that help is available. By Bernie Hackett Monday 8 Mar 2021, 7:00 AM Mar 8th 2021, 7:00 AM 10,915 Views 6 Comments Bernie Hackett
TODAY IS INTERNATIONAL Women’s Day a day established in 1911 to celebrates women’s achievements, making their voices heard, fight against generational injustice, and fighting for gender equality both in the workplace and in the home.
It also aims to highlight issues of parity and equality between genders. IWD also highlights many of the inspirational women around the world who in face of adversity and discrimination have challenged the status quo.
The theme of this year’s day is ‘choose to challenge’ – people are being asked to challenge th
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The Director of the National Women's Council of Ireland has said that the pandemic and restrictions imposed because of it have highlighted a number of issues for women.
Alison O Connor: Covid has reduced women to a 1950s gender stereotype
Alison O Connor asks why women have been the ones to pick up most, if not all, of the slack when it comes to childcare, home schooling and keeping the household running during Covid
Even mothers who have not been economically affected by the pandemic will say the pressure has been huge trying to keep on top of working, schooling, the laundry, cooking and keeping the kids on an even keel, while mostly failing to find any spare personal moments at all.
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It’s been described as the shadow pandemic the way in which the lives of women have been so disproportionately affected by Covid, all the way from the boardroom to the kitchen table. Those effects stretch from the near-impossible juggling of work and home schooling, to worldwide increases in domestic abuse and child marriages.