With shared parental leave, gender pay gap audits and a culture of respect, Iceland is a good place for women to work.

Germany’s Catholic Church cleared another reform hurdle at the weekend when an overwhelming majority of clerical and lay representatives at a synodal conference backed greater gender equality and more lay involvement in the choice of bishops.

“Men are elevated to senior roles while women remain in the feminine pastry and lower status roles. In fine dining, long working hours allow discrimination based on the possibility that women might desire to have a family. Acceptance of this results in the system remaining unchanged, and perpetuates gender inequality.”

The assembly on gender equality is debating the issue of Article 41.1 on the family, which states: “In particular, the State recognises that by her life within the home, woman gives to the State a support without which the common good cannot be achieved. The State shall, therefore, endeavour to ensure that mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labour to the neglect of their duties in the home.”

Her groundbreaking 1976 study of women challenged male assumptions about sex.

Fewer than one in 250 girls in Ireland cycle to school every day and those who do cycle say they are dealing with “harassment on the roads from drivers and young men”. In reponse, an environmental charity has launched the campaign #andshecycles to try and encourage more teenage girls to cycle and discuss why they do not.

Why is Greta Thunberg so triggering? How can a 16-year-old girl in plaits, who has dedicated herself to the not-exactly sinister, authoritarian plot of trying to save the planet from extinction, inspire such incandescent rage?

Give your children a diversity of skills by opening your mind about their options.

Beginning as a women’s rights campaigner, "Red Annie" quickly moved into secularism, trade unionism, and socialism. She filled halls across Britain as one of the National Secular Society’s most effective public speakers, and worked as a journalist for the National Reformer.

Mary Robinson, who served as president of Ireland from 1990 to 1997, remembers getting “quite a lot of pushback” when she was seeking to win a Dáil seat in the 1970s and 1980s. Politics aside, she got a lot of flak for being a mother who was seeking election. “You should be at home, minding the child, not coming around,” she remembers some voters bluntly remarking.