Over half (54%) of adults think women have to over-perform in the workplace to get the same recognition as men.

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·      Only 18% of employees say their workplace is running events or activities in support of International Women’s Day.

 

·       49% of workplaces who are running events for International Women’s Day have organised motivational or keynote speakers, 21% have team bonding/ team building activities, and 19% are doing gender workshops.

 

·       2 in 3 adults (64%) think women carry a huge guilt burden when they have to take time off to look after sick children and 42% of women think having children has affected their career path.

 

·       51% of adults support gender quotas at senior levels across companies and organisations and 50% think having a gender quota in government is a good idea.

 

·       37% of women have experienced sexism in the workplace and 25% of women have experienced ageism in the workplace.

 

 

Questions asked:

 

Q1: Please state your level of agreement with the following statements relating to the equality, careers and politics:

Q2: Is your company running any events or activities in support of International Women’s Day?

Q3: What type of activities are they running?

 

 

 

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About iReach Insights

 

iReach Insights provides a range of research and market intelligence services in Ireland and Europe. iReach has built a Consumer Decisions Research Panel of 40,000 members in Ireland, delivering robust research insights. The survey questions were included in the Nationally Representative iReach Consumer Decisions Omnibus run between the 23^rd  - 2^nd of March and has a 3% Confidence Interval and 95% Confidence Level.

 

 

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