As the housing crisis, costs of living and childcare costs continue to damage Irish society, it can be easy to speak of these issues as impacting everyone equally – but this isn’t the case. Many of the impacts of the economic issues facing Irish society are impacting women in insidious and unacknowledged ways, forcing many women into heteronormative relationships and traditional gender roles simply to survive.   While gender wage gaps and unequal division of care and domestic work in heterosexual couples persist, the added pressures of childcare costs and housing prices are forcing many straight women and mothers into difficult…

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