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Equal Opportunities
Factsheet
Education
48.3%
of girls leaving school in NI in
2011 went on to higher education,
compared to only 35.5% of boys.
2.7%
of boys leave school in NI without
any GCSEs, compared to 1.7%
of girls. (Department of Education
Northern Ireland 2011)
Employment
Only 35%
of people with disabilities are
employed in NI, compared to
76% of people without disabilities
(Labour Market Statistics Bulletin:
Northern Ireland, 2012)
Women’s
average hourly pay is 6%
less than men’s.
(Labour Market Statistics
Bulletin: Northern Ireland, 2012)
Life
Expectancy
The life expectancy of Traveller
men on the island of Ireland is
61.7 years,
compared to 76.8 for the general
population. (This is the same as
the life expectancy of the general
population in the 1940s.) (DOHC All
Ireland Traveller Health Survey, 2010)
Health
Traveller infant mortality rate
on the island of Ireland is
14.1 per 1,000
live births, as compared to 3.9 per
1,000 live births for the general
population. (DOHC All Ireland
Traveller Health Survey, 2010)
Migrant
Workers
ESRI research, commissioned by
the Equality Authority in 2008,
found that job applicants with
identifiably non-Irish names
were less than half as likely to be
called for interview as those with
typical Irish names. Compared
with similar experiments carried
out in other countries, the level
of discrimination recorded for
Ireland is high. (www.equality.ie)
Migrant workers are often
exploited by employers
and paid less than the
official minimum wage.
Domestic
workers
are especially vulnerable.
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