News for: Gender And Public Policy

Whitaker Institute member Dr Nata Duvvury, of the Gender and Public Policy Cluster, has written a new piece for Cois Coiribe, which looks at the strong links between domestic violence and manifestations of public violence. The article is available to read here.

Whitaker Institute member Dr Alison Herbert’s research has been featured in a recent article from the Irish Independent. Dr Herbert’s research found that women in their mid-40s to 60s living in rural Ireland are not motivated by money to continue working into older age, but instead by their life purpose and for social connection. Click here to… | Read on »

Whitaker Institute member Dr Alison Herbert’s recent Policy Brief  Why older rural women in Ireland want to work: it’s not all about the money which found that women in their mid-40s to 60s living in rural Ireland are not motivated by money to continue working into older age, but instead by their life purpose and for social connection,… | Read on »

Social gerontology extensively addresses financial reasons to work in later life, and pension inequalities. There is much less focus on the non-financial positive contributions that work provides for the older woman (Jahoda 1981), especially within a rural context. A qualitative study of twenty-five 45-65 year old women in Connemara, Ireland was undertaken from a lifecourse… | Read on »

A new report carried out by Whitaker Institute members Dr Nata Duvvury and Dr Caroline Forde, of the Gender and Public Policy Cluster, for Safe Ireland has found that the aggregate cost of domestic violence to a woman, over her journey from abuse to safety, is approximately €113,475 over a time span of 20 years… | Read on »

Ground-breaking research at NUI Galway on the economic cost of domestic violence (DV) in low and middle-income countries has been pivotal to developing new legislation and policies to protect women in Egypt, South Sudan and Vietnam. Women experience DV behind closed doors; however, its impact reaches beyond the individual and their family, having serious consequences… | Read on »

On March 31, the Whitaker Institute was delighted to host a live webinar titled Health workers and extending working life policy in Ireland: evidence from the DAISIE project. The DAISIE (Dynamics of Accumulated Inequalities for Seniors in Employment) project investigates the gender-differentiated work-life experiences, health and financial outcomes of workers in three occupations aged 50 and… | Read on »

On 8th of March, the Whitaker Institute was delighted to host Engendering the Macroeconomy: Current Efforts and Future Directions. Economics has neglected integrating gender in its analysis and as a result economic discourse fails to see and address gender inequality in the context of a modern economy. Feminist Economists have been pushing the frontiers of Economics,… | Read on »

Dr Alison Herbert’s (Gender and Public Policy cluster) recently published Whitaker Institute Policy Brief has been featured in an article from Agriland.ie. The Policy Brief looked at research conducted by Dr Herbert on the role of rural place in the lives of mid-life women in rural Ireland and Sweden. To read the article from Agriland.ie… | Read on »

Whitaker Institute member Dr Kieran Walsh, of the Population and Migration cluster, has co-edited a new book entitled Rural Gerontology: Towards Critical Perspectives on Rural Ageing. Whitaker Institute members Dr Nata Duvvury and Dr Áine Ni Leime, Gender and Public Policy cluster leaders, have also co-authored a chapter in the book entitled Rural women, ageing and retirement…. | Read on »