Orla O'Connor, Director of National Women's Council talks Women's Equality

This week Prof Finbarr Murphy chats with Orla O'Connor Director of National Women’s Council (NWC), the leading national women’s membership organisation in Ireland, with over 190 member groups. She was Co-Director of Together For Yes, the national Civil Society Campaign to remove the 8th Amendment in the referendum. For her role in Together for Yes, Orla was recognised as one of the 100 Most Influential People by TIME magazine in 2019. 

Orla is passionate about ensuring access to women’s reproductive rights; ensuring more women are in leadership positions; ending violence against women; and increasing women’s economic equality.

The NWC's current plan is 'No Woman Left Behind'. This plan includes economic equality, women's health, violence against women, and leadership.

The issue of care, following the pandemic, has been at the forefront of the NWC's strategy. Covid-19 highlighted that though women's work has changed and evolved over time, women still tend to hold the primary responsibility for care which does have an enormous impact on their participation in the workforce and society.

The ambition of the National Women’s Council is an Ireland where every woman enjoys true equality and no woman is left behind. This ambition shapes and informs their work and their living values.

https://www.nwci.ie/discover/about_us/our_team

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This episode is produced by the KBS Digital Hub-Grzegorz Rogala