On Nollaig na mBan, a traditionally female rest day in Ireland, many women are calling for more than just a break. They are demanding action on key issues like affordable childcare, equal pay, and access to healthcare.
Women don't want a rest on Nollaig na mBan. We want decent childcare, equal pay and access to healthcare. Lack of affordable, accessible, quality childcare means women are often forced into part-time, more precarious work. Seven year old Minnie McDermott from Meath participates in the 'All we want for Christmas is public childcare' rally in Dublin led by the National Women’s Council as the Dáil returned in December. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw, today.
It is the day women traditionally take a rest, get together and celebrate their Christmas while men do the housework. It is a well-earned break. Because never is the gendered division of labour more apparent than at Christmas. From the physical and emotional labour of managing a household to thewomen carry out twice as much unpaid care work and housework as men. And so the message today from many women to those negotiating the next government and its programme is clear: we need radical change over the next five years.Crises and controversy: our predictions on what’s next for education in 2025 Fiction in translation: Alejandro Zambra rescues fatherhood from the box-ticking dutifulness of parenting manualsThe deal breaker for the advancement of women’s equality in the next political term is public childcare. Currently, the lack of affordable, accessible, quality childcare means women are often forced into part-time, more precarious work. Some women feel they have no choice but to leave the workforce altogether. This results in a key driver of the gender pay gap: the motherhood penalty. Women’s earnings plummet after the birth of a child, while men’s remain static or even improve. Research from Maynooth University in 2023 found a significant 27 per cent decline in women’s earnings after childbirth. Delivering a public system of early childhood education and care would tackle this penalty and provide enormous benefit to children, women, families and early years educator
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