Summary: <a href="https://twitter.com/lughan_deane" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">Lughan Deane</a> is the Communications Executive for the <a href="https://twitter.com/IMPACTTU" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">IMPACT trade union</a>, who are currently running the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ClockedOut?src=hash" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">#ClockedOut campaign</a>.<br> In the discussion I slightly overstated the <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyguttman/2015/12/09/set-to-take-over-tech-70-of-irans-science-and-engineering-students-are-women/#11c9f92c44de" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">dominance of women in Iran’s technical and engineering facilities</a>, but the point stands. By contrast, <a href="http://www.economist.com/news/business/21632512-worlds-most-female-friendly-workplaces-executive-suites-are-still-male-dominated" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">women in Norway are remarkably reluctant to enter many male professions</a>.<br> In Ireland it is <a href="http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/equality_in_work/equality_in_the_workplace.html" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">illegal to pay someone less</a> based on their gender. TheJournal.ie have <a href="http://www.thejournal.ie/gender-pay-gap-ireland-statistics-facts-3133536-Dec2016/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">prepared an excellent analysis</a> of the raw <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Gender_pay_gap_statistics#Main_tables" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">Eurostat figures</a>.<br> Eurostat also report that males suffer <a href="http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/ireland-above-eu-average-for-fatal-accidents-at-work-31290967.html" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">almost 80 per cent of workplace injuries and 95 per cent</a> of workplace deaths.<br>
