In Q2 2024, of those working, 29% of women worked part-time, compared with 13% of men.
As of 2024, 27% of Government ministers in Ireland are women, while 43% of Irish European parliament members are women.
In 2024, the largest difference in the numbers of viewers for men’s and women’s sporting events was for the Six Nations Rugby Championship. The men’s Six Nations rugby matches had 10 times the number of viewers than the women’s Six Nations rugby.
Just over 35% of all employees in An Garda Síochána in 2023 were women.
Women accounted for 49% of all employments in 2022. Of the top 1% of earners only 25% were women.
The number of women working from home increased by 306% between 2016 and 2022. The number of men working from home rose by 114% in the same period.
In 2022, Ireland ranked 3rd for men and 9th for women for average life expectancy across Europe.
The Gender Pay Gap (GPG) in Ireland for 2022, measured as the average pay difference between males and females, was 9.3%.
The Women and Men in Ireland Hub was developed by the CSO in March 2024, using the latest data from both the CSO and other public service bodies, to provide comprehensive equality data on women and men in Ireland. This Hub provides a wide range of information, broken down into six main themes: Gender Equality; Work; Education; Health; Safety and Security; and Transport. Users can find information about the differences in pay between men and women, detailed data on areas of study and work, and how that differs between women and men, among many other metrics.
The Women and Men in Ireland Hub provides timely information. CSO data in the Hub is updated as new releases are published, whilst data from other sources is automatically updated once it becomes available. The Hub uses our open data portal, data.cso.ie or PxStat, which allows users to search for data relevant to them, download it, and create visuals in a way that suits them best.
In 2021, Ireland ranked 9th in the EU on the Gender Equality Index, down two places from 7th in 2020.
As of Q2 2024, 11.5% of men in employment usually worked 49 hours or more, compared with 3.3% of women.
The Gender Pay Gap (GPG) in Ireland for 2022, measured as the average difference between males and females, was 9.3%.
The median hourly earnings in 2022 for men were €20.11 which compares with median hourly earnings for women of €19.00.
As of 2024, 27% of Government ministers in Ireland are women, while 43% of Irish Members of the European parliament are women.
In 2024, the number of television viewers of men’s sports was far greater than viewers of women’s sports, for the majority of sports we have data on.
The exception was the Basketball National Cup Finals, where there were more than twice the number of viewers for the women's final compared with the men's final. The smallest difference was for the Basketball National League Finals which had 13% more viewers of the men’s final compared with the women’s final.
The largest difference was between the men's and women's 2024 Six Nations Rugby Championship: the average number of viewers per match of the men's Six Nations was more than 10 times that of the women's Six Nations.
In Q2 2024, of those working, 29% of women worked part-time, compared with 13% of men.
Women accounted for 49% of all employments in 2022. Of the top 1% of earners only 25% were women.
The sector with the lowest percentage of women in the top 1% of earners was Construction at 7%, and the sector with the highest was Human Health & Social Work Activities at 35%.
The participation rate was higher for men than women for all age groups greater than 25 years, in Q4 2023.
The number of women working from home rose by 306% between 2016 and 2022. The number of men working from home was up by 114% in the same period.
As of 2022, more than three-quarters of workers in both the Education and the Human Health & Social Work Activities sectors were women.
More than nine in ten workers in the Construction sector were men, in 2022.
Unemployment rates are almost the same for both sexes as of Q2 2024, at 4.6% for men and 4.5% for women.
Rates of unemployment were highest for women whose highest level of education was Primary or below at 15.8%.
Rates of unemployment were highest for men whose highest level of education was Lower Secondary at 9%.
Of those in consistent poverty in 2023, 52% were women and 48% were men.
Ireland’s at risk of poverty rate in 2023 was lower than the EU average, which was 15.4% for men and 16.9% for women, by 3.6 percentage points for men and 4.7 percentage points for women.
The rate of maternity benefit per 100 employees in 2022 was 5.5, which continues to be higher than the rate of paternity benefit per 100 employees, which was 3.4 in 2022.
Some 67% of those whose highest level of education in 2022 was an apprenticeship were men.
Of those whose highest level of education in 2022 was postgraduate diploma or degree, 57% were women.
Of those who sat higher level Design and Communication Graphics for their Leaving Certificate in 2023, 79% were male, while 88% of those who sat higher level Home Economics (Social and Scientific) were female.
French was the most common foreign language to study for both males and females. Dutch was the least popular foreign language to study for males, whilst it was Bulgarian for females.
Half of women aged 15-64 years had a third level qualification as of 2023, compared with 42% of men.
For male graduates, Professional, Scientific, & Technical Activities was the most common sector to work in their first-year post-graduation in 2019, whilst for female graduates it was Human Health & Social Work Activities.
Median weekly earnings increased in line with the number of years after graduation in 2010, for both men and women, remaining broadly similar between both sets of graduates for the first five years after graduation.
However, after 10 years this difference increases to an average of €125, with male graduates earning €1,040 per week compared with €915 for female graduates.
Men accounted for 32% of secondary school teachers in Ireland and 15% of primary school teachers in 2022.
Switzerland has the highest proportion of male secondary school teachers (48%), and Turkey has the highest proportion of male primary school teachers (35%).
As of 2021, the highest fertility rates in Ireland are among women aged between 30 to 34 years. The average age of first-time mothers in 2022 was at 31.5 years.
In 2022, Ireland had a fertility rate of 1.5, which is the same as the EU average fertility rate.
Births in 2021 declined to 60,575 from 74,033 in 2011.
Almost 58.2% of births occurred within marriage.
Life expectancy at birth according to Census 2016 is 79.6 years for men and 83.4 years for women.
In 2022, Ireland ranked 3rd for men and 9th for women for average life expectancy across the EU.
Census 2022 shows that 20.9% of all men and 22.2% of all women in Ireland reported having experienced at least one long-lasting condition or difficulty to any extent.
In 2022, women provided more unpaid hours as carers to friends or family than men, with the majority of these females aged between 50 and 54 years.
The greatest number of regular unpaid hours of care provided by children was by boys aged between 15 and 17 years.
During 2022, the percentage of female psychiatric hospital admissions at 51% was slightly higher than for males at 49%.
The most common primary diagnosis leading to admissions for men was schizophrenia, schizotypal, or delusional disorders, whilst it was depressive disorders for women.
In 2022, men between the ages of 25 and 34 years accounted for the largest number of hospital discharges. Some 29% of all hospital discharges involving women occurred within a week or less of admission.
In 2023, the highest recorded crime incidents were Attempts/Threats to Murder, and Assault, Harassment & Related Offences. Based on 2018 data, both men and women were more likely to re-offend than not within three years of the original offence. Men and women are both more likely to offend against men.
Some 52% of women reported experiencing sexual violence in their lifetime, as of 2022. The most commonly reported location for those who experienced sexual violence as an adult with a non-partner was in a pub, club, or disco.
Of those women who experienced sexual violence in their lifetime, 53% said they did disclose to someone compared with 34% of men.
Just over 35% of all employees in An Garda Síochána in 2023 were women.
In 2022, 292,723 men and 267,196 women aged between 35 and 44 years commuted to work, school, or college. By car was the most popular means of travel for both men and women, and by motorcycle or scooter the least popular.
In 2022, 55.1% of men taking their driving test passed, compared with 50.5% of women. In 2023, of those that held full driving licences, 54% were male and 46% were female.
Across all years (2005 to 2021) men consistently accounted for significantly more deaths and injuries on our roads than women.
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Women and Men in Ireland Hub
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has today (23 October 2024) released an update to the Women and Men in Ireland Hub. This Hub was developed in March 2024, using the latest data from both the CSO and other public service bodies, to provide a comprehensive one-stop-shop for equality data related to women and men in Ireland (See Editor’s Note below for more information).
Commenting on the Women and Men in Ireland Hub, Laura Delaney, Statistician in the Statistical Systems Coordination Unit, said: “This Women and Men in Ireland Hub was launched by the CSO in March 2024 to facilitate a growing need for equality-based data and more timely information.
This is a single data resource on our website which gathers and automatically updates statistics on women and men as they are published by the CSO and other public sector organisations. The Hub is designed to increase the frequency of updates and simplify the process of finding and accessing data on women and men in Ireland.
The structure of the Hub allows the flexibility to add new data as it becomes available, to include new topics, and to have more regular updates. The CSO welcomes comments and suggestions from users of this platform, which can be sent to sscu@cso.ie."
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