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In the case of the female of the species, we have undoubtedly come a long, long way over the
As proven by the #metoo movement and the current gender pay gap controversy – men still get paid 14% more than women in Ireland – there is still some mountain left to climb. And so, to mark International Women’s Day on Sunday, March 8th, and under the banner Women At The Whale, once again,
It’s an impressive line-up again this year, with author and
Women On The Verve
deep-rooted prejudices that somehow managed to pass as normal in times gone by, it’s important that we 
give a voice to all those who were once told to, well, shut up.
past 100 years, from the arrival of votes for women in 1918 to the Irish Liberation Women’s Movement bringing Belfast-bought contraceptives illegally past the barrier at Connolly Station in 1971, from the 1990 inauguration of Mary Robinson as Ireland’s first female president to Katie Taylor being allowed inside an Olympic 
boxing ring – without pretending to be a boy – for the very first time in London 2012.
Irish Times journalist 
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