Olwen Dawe
Oct 31, 202010 min read
Converting Advocacy to Action: #WakingTheFeminists Legacy
In late 2015, gender inequality in Irish theatre came centre-stage.
Olwen Dawe
Dec 5, 20171 min read
The Amplify Women Toolkit Irish Times Women's Podcast
In response to the revelations of harassment in Irish theatre, the #MeToo and #IrishWeinstein hashtags, Amplify Women, an umbrella group...
Olwen Dawe
Nov 16, 20175 min read
Liberty, Equality and Unity?
This post was originally published on Theatre Forum's blog, on Monday 14th November 2017. It is two years, today, since the issue of...
Olwen Dawe
Oct 17, 20174 min read
Getting More #WomenOnBoard
[This article was published in the autumn edition of Women Mean Business magazine - available in-store or via download on...
Olwen Dawe
Jun 12, 201710 min read
Hearing Women's Voices - #WakingTheFeminists
This paper was delivered at University College Cork's Women's Studies 'Women's Voices in Ireland' conference on the 10th June 2017....
Olwen Dawe
Feb 7, 20173 min read
We’re All Biased. And That’s a Fact.
Written for Ulster Bank's Small Business Can / Business Achievers Forum Queue lots of you reading this to recoil and say ‘No I am NOT!’....
Olwen Dawe
Mar 15, 20163 min read
Unconscious Bias... at Work
Unconscious bias. Two words. Unconscious. Bias. What do you think when you hear these two words? Is it something we can control?...
Olwen Dawe
Feb 9, 20164 min read
Blog Archive: Olwen Dawe: The Pushy, Bossy Note-Takers’ View on Gender and Entrepreneurship
This post was written for the NWCI Blog in 2013 - as the organisation celebrated 40 years of EU membership, as well as its fortieth...
Olwen Dawe
Jan 18, 20164 min read
Women! Know Your Limits!
If I had a Euro for every time I was asked why I thought there were proportionately less women in certain roles, in leadership, in...
Olwen Dawe
Sep 1, 20153 min read
Blog Archive: Accelerating the Pace of Change
Writtten for the NWCI Blog - December 2014 Last year marked National Women’s Council’s fortieth birthday; it also coincided with the...