{"id":332180,"date":"2026-03-06T14:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T14:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/332180\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T14:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T14:50:09","slug":"number-of-women-in-employment-in-ireland-up-82-since-2000-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/332180\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of women in employment in Ireland up 82% since 2000 \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The number of women employed in Ireland has jumped by 82 per cent since 2000, according to new figures from the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/central-statistics-office\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/central-statistics-office\/\"> Central Statistics Office<\/a> (CSO).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The agency\u2019s latest women in the labour market report indicated that the number of women in employment in the Irish labour market stood at 1.3 million in the final quarter of 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">This represented an 82.1 per cent increase on the 729,900 women registered as being in employment in 2000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">At the same time, the number of women who reported their principal economic status as \u201cengaged in home duties\u201d has fallen significantly, declining 61.8 per cent from 520,500 in 2010 to 198,800 in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Women represented over three-quarters (75.9 per cent) of employees in the human health and social work sector, and just under three-quarters of the education sector (74.9 per cent), the agency said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It also noted that more than six in ten (63.6 per cent) women in employment had a third level degree compared with 52.8 per ecnt of males.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image audio_image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1754647931518-c07d65db-55b5-463e-ae51-976300c5837e.jpeg\"\/>How the conflict in the Middle East is already affecting Irish consumers<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">While the median (middle value) weekly earnings among woman employments rose by 39.2 per cent between 2014 (\u20ac469.85) and 2024 (\u20ac654.07). <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It was still 23 per cent less than the median weekly earnings for male employees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The figures indicate median weekly earnings among male employments over the same period, rose by 36.5 per cent, from \u20ac587.52 in 2014 to \u20ac802.14 in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The proportion of women among the top 1 per cent of earners increased by five percentage points from 22.6 per cent in 2019 to 27.6 per cent in 2024, while the proportion of women in employments with earnings in the top 10 per cent rose from 27.9 per cent to 30.6 per cent over the same period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In 2022, the CSO noted that the Gender Pay Gap (GPG), which was measured as the average difference between male and woman hourly earnings, was 9.6 per cent, with mean hourly earnings for males at \u20ac27.73 and \u20ac25.06 for women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">CSO\u2019s statistician Colin Hanley said the release aims \u201cto provide insights on women in the labour market, in terms of both employment and earnings, by combining and analysing statistics provided in existing releases such as the Labour Force Survey, Earnings Analysis using Administrative Data Sources, and Structure of Earnings Survey (SES)\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The number of women employed in Ireland has jumped by 82 per cent since 2000, according to 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