“When you have complicated problems you need more ideas, not fewer ideas, women have different backgrounds, approaches and experiences and in the end you get better decisions and a better world.” HON PATRICIA A TORSNEY, INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION PERMANENT OBSERVER TO THE UN Loyalist women face continuing barriers to their voice being heard because of the challenges that persist from being…

By Her Loyal Voice Loyalist women have faced and continue to face sustained abuse online. Whether sharing their views, commenting on politics, or just generally sharing what is going on in their life and their community, this abuse is constant. While all women can experience abuse online, the abuse that loyalist women experience has reached new heights. Often coming from…

By Emma Shaw Albert Einstein said “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think”. If you grew up in Northern Ireland, especially in working class areas, the chances are you experienced a highly segregated schooling system. We have the Education Authority who have the mandate for State schools, which are predominantly Protestant, and…

Image illustration by Nathalie Lees. Delighted to share with you the full report from the Loyalist Women’s Engagement Survey. As people across Northern Ireland and indeed the world continue to deal with a global pandemic, it is little wonder that the highest concern for loyalist women at present is Covid-19 with 75% citing it as a concern now. Furthermore, social…

Her Loyal Voice (HLV) is pleased to release Part One of the results of the Loyalist Women’s Engagement Survey. A total of 532 loyalist women responded to the survey.  Women were asked if, over the past 12 months, had their opinion been sought on issues of concern to them.  Sixty seven percent said they had never been asked for their…

Editor: Following on from Emma’s opinion piece here, she wants to share with you policy recommendations stemming from her research report Unheard Voices: East Belfast Pupils Have Their Say on Higher & Further Education. The full report can be downloaded by clicking here.

Editor: Women should be equally represented in boardrooms, governments, the workforce, and in all walks of life but, sadly that is not what is happening today. You just have to look at social media to see the barrage of insults, threats and demeaning language used against any woman who shares her opinion. There is an urgent need for the female…