This week, the National Women's Council of Ireland was in Geneva higlighting discrimination against women.
One area of discrimination is that of pay. Here the gender pay gap stands at 14.4%.
While everyone agrees that there is one, there are differences in opinion on why it's there. In other words, are there good reasons for it as opposed to sexism in the work place.
Orla O'Connor from the National Women's Counsil, business woman Jackie Lavin, financial advisor Jill Kerby and Dr Michelle Sheehy Skeffinton, who won a gender discrimination case against NUIG when she was passed over for a promotion.
Orla told the show how we have reached this figure: "There are a number of different causes.
"The pay gap has actually widened over the recent years and one of the reasons for that is women are predominating in low paid jobs. The majority of low paid workers in Ireland are women.
"And also, we have a low number of women at senior level both within the private and public sector.
"The other issue, which is a sort of a key issue in terms of the gender pay gap, is the whole issue around care and being able to balance work and family life. So in Ireland, and we stand out in Europe in that, in terms of having very low level of investment in childcare, so it's really expensive in Ireland, and in families where there's more than two children, you see a significant difference in women's employment participation."
The panel went on to dicsuss whether these issues were discrimination based or what other issues are at play in the work place, including the fact that men are more aware of pay and pensions.
You can listen back to the discussion here:
The show then conducted a poll on their twitter account on the issue:
Is the Gender Pay Gap justified? #GenderPayGap #ColetteNT
— ColetteFitz (@ColetteFitzIRL) November 29, 2015
