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Jen Keane

@zenbuffy

Jen Keane - she/her. Thoughts about migraine, cakes, sewing, and occasional spicy political rants. https://jenniferkeane.ie for long-form thoughts. https://paygap.ie/ for my Irish Gender Pay Gap data portal https://ko-fi.com/zenbuffy to support my work

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Clearly what all the stairmaster people in the gym are training for us endlessly going up and down the stairs to the bar in the Aviva...

#IREvWAL

06.03.2026 20:49 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ok Ireland I climbed like four million stairs to get here, make it worth it.

#IREvWAL

06.03.2026 19:44 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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PayGap.ie - Irish Gender Pay Gap Portal A portal cataloguing gender pay gap reports from Irish companies.

Your reminder that if a company is posting about #IWD today or over the weekend, you should check their gender pay gaps on PayGap.ie or the UK government portal.

Policies are not progress. I'm tired of pink water bottles and cupcakes, I want change.

06.03.2026 14:05 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

His mission is "haulted". This is the great thinker of our generation? Jesus christ...

06.03.2026 10:26 πŸ‘ 215 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 0

I am *hopeless* when it comes to the city centre. Where is a good place for a gang of women to meet up, have some dinner, and discuss how we're going to fix the world together? I had an idea but they don't open on a Wednesday πŸ™ˆ I have some plans myself, but would love any ideas!

06.03.2026 10:14 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Sneachta. Sneachta everywhere. This lousy smarch weather.

05.03.2026 15:48 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If we want to close the gender pay gap in Ireland, this is where we need to start. The motherhood penalty continues to be a significant contributor to the pay gap, and it is completely solvable.

If we stop penalising mothers, the motherhood penalty disappears. It's that simple.

05.03.2026 10:02 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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TΓ‘ sΓ© anseo!

paygap.ie is now available in Irish πŸ’š

Because conversations about pay equality belong in every language.

#SeachtainNaGaeilge #Gaeilge #PayGap #Equality #GenderPayGap #PayTransparency #WomenInWork

04.03.2026 09:07 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Irish speakers, I have done my best, and worked with a translator, but I definitely missed a few strings when I sent them to her. Know that I am continuing to try and improve it, and if you see some Irish that could be better, please do point it out. It's important to me that it's good.

04.03.2026 09:08 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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TΓ‘ sΓ© anseo!

paygap.ie is now available in Irish πŸ’š

Because conversations about pay equality belong in every language.

#SeachtainNaGaeilge #Gaeilge #PayGap #Equality #GenderPayGap #PayTransparency #WomenInWork

04.03.2026 09:07 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hey so did you know that you can do your job and also not be awful about it? Showing an ounce of empathy is actually not counter to the requirement of any job. Except maybe clampers.

02.03.2026 20:51 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Quote from Washington Times editorial board

"[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."

Quote from Washington Times editorial board "[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

02.03.2026 11:57 πŸ‘ 43880 πŸ” 6861 πŸ’¬ 4763 πŸ“Œ 1829
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PayGap.ie - Irish Gender Pay Gap Portal A portal cataloguing gender pay gap reports from Irish companies.

Friends, I'm working on allowing people to access PayGap.ie in Irish. I'm close to finished on the code work needed to support translatable strings everywhere, and will do my best at a first pass of the translations too, but if there's any Irish speakers willing to give it a look, let me know!

01.03.2026 15:19 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Bought a thing for the husband. He's only delighted.

28.02.2026 10:29 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Remember when it was nice out yesterday for a little bit? That was nice, wasn't it?

26.02.2026 09:11 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you are interested in any or all of the above, I'd simply love to see some friendly faces in the audience, and maybe a softball question or two (lol).

25.02.2026 14:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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#iwd2026 | TU Dublin Equality Diversity Inclusion Join us March 11 to celebrate #IWD2026! Register Now: https://lnkd.in/ddBSQhu7

And on March 11th, I'll be at TUD's Grangegorman campus. Tickets also free for this one, but again, do register in advance.

www.linkedin.com/posts/tu-dub...

25.02.2026 14:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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On the 10th of March, I'll be at the Women In STEM summit. Tickets.... very much not free, but it does look like an absolutely stellar agenda!

womeninstem.ie

25.02.2026 14:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Gender Equality Panel Talk for International Women’s Day Join us for an engaging panel discussion on the lead up to international Women’s Day.

First up, for WCI Tallaght, I'll be in Rua Red on March 4th. Tickets are free but moving quickly so do grab one! www.eventbrite.ie/e/gender-equ...

25.02.2026 14:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Ok, if you'd like to hear me chat about pay gap stuff, activism, my own career in tech, and related topics, I'm already booked for several events in March around #IWD. I'll share them below, and if you're coming to one or more, please do come and say hi!

25.02.2026 14:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Actually realising this has been really important for my self care and mental health. I find myself in the doldrums and have to remind myself it's not true, and also check for other pre-migraine symptoms and prep for potential unwell times.

25.02.2026 13:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Here's a lesser talked about migraine symptom for you - last night a migraine bit me hard, and it's still lingering today. And I'm feeling depressed. It took me years to realise that migraines absolutely torpedo my mood. Before, during, and after.

25.02.2026 13:07 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry, is it actually ok outside today? Like, you could even go for a little walk?

25.02.2026 12:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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The Motherhood Penalty is a choice we have made We often talk about the gender pay gap as a matter of β€œchoice” β€” but what if those choices are financially coerced? New research from Royal London Ireland values the work of a stay-at-home parent at o...

The "motherhood penalty" is not an inevitable thing. It's a policy outcome. It's a choice we (our government) made and continue to make.

paygap.ie/posts/the-mo...

24.02.2026 16:30 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Motherhood Penalty is a choice we have made We often talk about the gender pay gap as a matter of β€œchoice” β€” but what if those choices are financially coerced? New research from Royal London Ireland values the work of a stay-at-home parent at o...

The "motherhood penalty" is not an inevitable thing. It's a policy outcome. It's a choice we (our government) made and continue to make.

paygap.ie/posts/the-mo...

24.02.2026 16:30 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Padel courts are the new donut shops in Dublin.

24.02.2026 11:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Thanks for the single corner named after two women I guess. Paying them more wasn't an option, no?

23.02.2026 10:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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PayGap.ie - Irish Gender Pay Gap Portal A portal cataloguing gender pay gap reports from Irish companies.

I'm doing more data enrichment for PayGap.ie so that I can add some basic level location data and then maybe map our pay gap data. So let me take this moment to whinge into the universe that it is a SCANDAL that there is no publicly available, downloadable database of eircodes without paying.

22.02.2026 17:43 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The office gallery wall is coming along quite nicely really. (Gaps are intentional, for more things to come)

22.02.2026 15:19 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Genuinely exhausting. People with so so much privilege who absolutely crumble at the lightest criticism or comment.

22.02.2026 13:02 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0