Dal 2000 il numero delle donne occupate è aumentato dell’82,1%.

**Key Findings**

* The estimated number of females in employment stood at 1,328,900 in Q4 2025, an 82.1% increase from 729,900 reported in Q4 2000.

* The number of women who reported their Principal Economic Status as “engaged in home duties” decreased by 61.8% from 520,500 in 2010 to 198,800 in 2025.

* In Q4 2025, females accounted for 41.7% of persons in full-time employment, and 67.1% of persons in part-time employment.

* Females represented over three-quarters (75.9%) of employees in the Human Health & Social Work sector, and just under three-quarters of the Education sector (74.9%) in Q4 2025.

* More than six in ten (63.6%) females in employment had a third level degree compared with 52.8% of males in Q4 2025.

* Median weekly earnings among female employments rose by 39.2% between 2014 (€469.85) and 2024 (€654.07). This compares with an increase of 36.5% in median weekly earnings among male employments over the same period, from €587.52 in 2014 to €802.14 in 2024.

* The proportion of females among the top 1% of earners increased by five percentage points from 22.6% in 2019 to 27.6% in 2024, while the proportion of females in employments with earnings in the top 10% rose from 27.9% to 30.6% over the same period.

* In 2022, the Gender Pay Gap (GPG), which was measured as the average difference between male and female hourly earnings, was 9.6%, with mean hourly earnings for males at €27.73 and €25.06 for females.

http://cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-wlm/womeninthelabourmarket2024-2025/keyfindings/

As a woman I take pride in my career and am very glad I have equal opportunities for work, but we should really be working fewer hours if we have more people in the workforce. I don’t know how couples are meant to manage the household and raise kids while both working 40 hours, which for a lot of people would be required to afford a house or live comfortably.

And now both parents have to work. That’s the lie we got sold on. Both parents now need to work to maintain the same quality of life ( in most cases a worse quality of life than previous generations )

There will be a load of commentary about stay at home parents not being as possible, and there’s some merit in that, but I cannot understate how important it is for women to have their own means in as much as possible. It is good that this many women *can* work outside the home, and any clown who tries to tell you otherwise needs to have a chat with some older women about how life was for them and their friends when it wasn’t the case. 

If you do not or can not work outside the home, have money stashed somewhere that only you know about or can access.

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It’s a measure of a changing society. We are so far behind on the supports for this, however – in particular affordable childcare.

“Females”

Stop this bullshit I stg. You do not use the same words we use for cattle or biology for a social class. It’s disrespectful how normalized it’s becoming.