Gender

New guidance that aims to improve equal participation and representation of women in parliaments around the world has been published by the Scottish Parliament. The development of ...

Passengers should not have to provide their gender identity in order to buy a train ticket, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled ...

New EU rules aimed at improving gender balance on corporate boards have come into force. The Gender Balance on Corporate Boards Directive, which has not yet been ...

Justice minister Helen McEntee and James Browne, minister of state with responsibility for law reform have welcomed the passing through the Oireachtas of legislation which will establish a ...

The lives of women and girls in Afghanistan are being devastated by the Taliban’s crackdown on their human rights, Amnesty International has said in a new report. ...

Dublin solicitor William Aylmer has been recognised in the Oireachtas for his role in drafting a new law providing for gender balance on the boards and governing ...

The Circuit Court has overturned a decision by the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) to award €3,000 to a father who claimed to have suffered gender discrimination by ...

The Bar of Ireland has announced a number of initiatives to mark the centenary of Frances Kyle and Averil Deverell becoming Ireland's first woman barristers. Ms Kyle ...

Philip Alston, the John Norton Pomeroy professor of law at NYU School of Law, argues that gender diversity on the International Court of Justice must be taken ...

People should be allowed to declare their gender as X on their passports, the UK Supreme Court will hear today. Christie Elan-Cane, 63, who identifies as non-gendered, ...

Lawyers and legal academics have been invited to complete a survey seeking to identify the barriers to women achieving judicial appointment in Ireland. Caoimhe Kiernan, a PhD ...

Dr Tanya Ní Mhuirthile, assistant professor in law at DCU, outlined the interaction between the intersex community and the law in an online event hosted by OUTLaw, ...

The belief that sex is "biologically immutable" and transgender people should be treated and referred to as the sex they were assigned at birth is not ...

The requirement for parental consent in order for minors to change their legal gender can be "restrictive and problematic", according to a report prepared by Dentons. Only ...

The gender recognition process for 16- and 17-year-olds will be simplified under new legislation announced by the Government. Social Protection Minister Regina Doherty said she will seek ...