@inbook{3a64878d78f44883b408828595bf2444,
title = "Introduction",
abstract = "Historically and culturally, the Irish higher education system was shaped by, and has been reflective of, the deeply inequitable gender relations and societal norms characteristic of Irish society. InequalityInequality was pervasive in economic, political, social and cultural spheres and the struggle for equal rights and systemic change by women and minoritised communities has been a defining feature of the mobilisationMobilisation for progressive changeChange in the twentieth and early twenty-first century in Ireland.",
author = "Lorraine McIlrath and Marie Connolly and Helen Maher and Lorraine Leeson",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2025.",
year = "2025",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-89502-9\_1",
language = "English",
series = "Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "1--19",
booktitle = "Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education",
}