DiversityAware Course

Gender Equality

Gender Equality

Seeking full equality for Traveller and Roma women and acting in solidarity with women and women’s organisations in Donegal and nationally.

Facts

  • A large number of Roma and Traveller women and girls continue to face multiple discrimination in various areas, ranging from health to employment and education. They also have limited opportunities to influence the policies that most concern them. (Council of Europe)
  • Some Roma and Traveller women may face sexist, old-fashioned and restrictive views in career guidance or working life, both from the majority population and from within their own communities. (Council of Europe)
Traveller women group
Gender equality workshop

Ongoing Work

  • A women’s gender equality group established by DTP in 2019 created a safe space for Traveller women to discuss lived experience, women’s rights and gender inequality.
  • In late 2022, DTP launched a Women’s Awareness Project and appointed two community health workers to promote gender equality and raise awareness of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence.
  • DTP works with support services to ensure Traveller women’s needs are met in culturally appropriate and sensitive ways.
  • DTP supports the development of community leadership and gender equality with men and women from the Traveller and Roma communities.
  • Gender equality work aligns with the National Strategy for Women and Girls and the National Strategy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence.