Sales of sports bras have risen as women chose comfort over curves.

Prof Doyle said she was “exhilarated to take on this role and to be part of this historic development in Trinity’s history

While we have done a very good job dismantling some of the rigid stereotypes that used to be foisted on women, we have not had a parallel wide-ranging discussion about what it might mean to be a “good man” in today’s world.

March 25th, 2021 marks the 110th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the deadliest workplace disaster in New York state until the terrorist attacks of September 11th. The fire ended the lives of 146 workers and injured another 78, most of them immigrant women and girls.

It is worth making that shift because it is the polite thing to do. The civilised procedure is always to call people what they want to be called.

Better and more affordable childcare will do more to promote gender equality in the workplace than anything else, a survey of mostly female employers has found.

At least 43 women from Ireland died on active service between 1914 and 1918, while another 13 died in 1919. They served as nurses as well as members of the Queen Mary Army Auxiliary Corps, the Women’s Legion, the Women’s Royal Airforce and the Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS).

“Although tax and welfare policies do not typically differentiate based on gender, they can affect men and women differently. Men tend to have higher earnings than women, resulting in different income tax liabilities and benefit entitlement,” said Dr Karina Doorley, an author of the report.