Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 October 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality
Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed)
Ms Sonya Lennon:
I will speak about some personal experience of the returnship and our pipeline of returning clients. I will share some statistics from our research. Some 35% of people say family caring duties have impacted their career. That is 45% of women versus 25% of men, and 33% of women with teenage children - I mentioned this - say their careers have been impacted versus 0% of men. Among parents of pre-teens, 41% of women feel impacted compared with 10% of men. That is stark.
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