Women at work

Men less satisfied with work-life balance than women

Workplace set-up makes it hard for men to play bigger role in family life

Women’s working lives

Society has made progress on equality at work but pace of change is glacial

Women have come a long way since the marriage bar but still have a long way to go

All employees are equal, but some employees are more equal than others

Ireland has a long way to go before it achieves parity of pay between the sexes

Working women’s lives: then and now

Passionate about work and about parenting

Women at work: how to be the great man behind the great woman

Draw up a list of chores and then divide them equally to achieve parity

Women at work: the cost of childcare

Government should provide comprehensive childcare for pre-school children, say parents in an Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI poll – but don’t ask them to sacrifice child benefit to pay for it

The personal is political: my family’s childcare role-reversal

We never wanted to assume standard roles as parents – so we didn’t

Working mothers: the children’s verdict

Working parents may fret about finding the right kind of childcare but what do their grown-up offspring remember now of those years when mum and dad weren’t around?

‘Finding my first real grown-up job would be my next goal’

One woman finds that being in her 20s gives her time to think things through

Working women, stay-at-home mothers, and joint accounts

These days, many couples’ homes are run as two separate financial entities

‘As a stay-at-home mother, I don’t feel valued by society’

Working in the home contributes asmuch as that of a ‘working woman’

Women’s working lives: then and now

Communications manager Tara Humphreys (40) and former Aer Lingus employee Irene Rooney (78) tell their stories