Very true- we don't have council tax & property tax is low in Ireland, and there are no direct water charges. On the other hand, healthcare costs are higher on average here, the tax rate is higher than in the UK & higher rates kick in earlier.

Too many factors to discuss them all in one article!

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'If you can’t see it, you can’t be it’, increasing the visibility of women economists in the media is one step towards mending the leaky pipeline and improving gender equality in economics. This study provides important insights into an under-researched topic and identifies strategies to do so.(6/6)

Women are under-represented in economics in Ireland studies suggest that women experts are under-represented in the Irish media. To date however, there has been no research on gender differences in economists’ media engagement in Ireland, or to the best of our knowledge, internationally (5/6)

Although women economists feel equally well equipped for media engagement, they are less confident and more likely to say that it's not an important part of work, compared to men. However, they feel a greater responsibility to inform the public about their research and to act as role models (4/6)

This translates into sizable differences between men and women economists in the number of appearances on television and radio programmes and in print media over the course of their careers as shown in Table 2 from the paper (3/6)

Using data from a self-reported online survey of Irish economists, we find that women economists are less likely to be invited to participate in news media, are more likely to refuse, and require longer to prepare for an interview compared to their male counterparts. (2/6)