Ireland is the fifth best country in world to be a woman

I know a lot of women who would have no problem saying what a loada cow manure,on the plus side,cow manure makes good fertilizer.

A female head of state? Excuse me? Is this survey trying to equate the Uacthtaran na hEireann with the President of the USA or France? Come on! The Uachtaran na hEireann is a powerless job that is currently held by a Leprechaun (that is my attempt at humour). The Republic of Ireland has never had a woman Taoiseach. Women in the USA earn 77% of what men earn. I am not sure that the powerless job is worth anything. There is only one woman justice on the Cúirt Uachtarach na hÉireann. So it looks as if this World Economic Forum Study has failed to do their homework comparing apples to oranges and in the case of equal pay, just being wrong.

Proposed caption for above photograph: "My lttle piggys' bigger than your little piggy. Eat [pork]!" (PS Just kiddin'. I'm a veggie!) More seriously, though. Tammy Wynette should move here: "Sometimes its hard to be a woman. Standing by your man. She'd never get D-I-V-O-R-C-E-D.

All the more reason jacersagain, for the men in these women's lives, to step up to the plate, help out with the children that they helped create and Man Up! Let's not be a Neanderthal about it; sounds like these men are expecting the women to work, bring home the bacon and fry it! Those days are gone. Women can do it all, with some help from her partner or significant other..

This is really nice to know but you forgot to tell everyone,that there are no jobs for either men or women ,that's why you mass immigration again.What a load of BS

(…more) That’s very frustrating for us men in the section. I dare say this is a very common problem in most mixed workplaces. Tongue in cheek, may I say that married women should be at home over the kitchen sink with their children safely tied to their apron strings. Think of the benefits: more men at work on higher salaries than (most) women, no baby-minder bills, no crèche bills, no hungry “latch-door key” school kids and, overall, happier children and families. Please don’t throw the frying pan, Dears.

While this headline may be true, and it is good to see women being successful in Ireland - it also has big drawbacks. In my work section, there are more women than men. Three of five senior positions are held by women. Most of the women are also mothers, which means they have to take time off work when the children fall ill, never mind the times they take off work with their own, frequent and uniquely-feminine problems and illnesses. Some of the women work part-time: three days on, two days off or four days on, two half-days off. Then they suffer the stress of working their jobs while also attending to or managing family matters, and take sick days off to recover from that. Result? One cannot depend on the women being around for critical decision-making when those daily demands crop up. And so work targets get delayed… and delayed and delayed. (More…)

with the boys plastered they not being a bother to them.

Ireland ranks highly politically, having had a female head of state 21 out of the last 50 years serving as president." That is a strange criteria to use. Well, who ever wrote this ought to come live here as a woman for a while and experience the truth. Considering our judiciary are trained in 2012 to see all females in Eire as feeble minded, how was this research done?