The progress indicators used in this report were chosen because they help to:

• Identify important gender differences in the activities of men and women;

• Assist users to identify the underlying reasons that explain these differences;

• Present the situation in Ireland in an international context.

This web-based edition of Women and Men in Ireland is organised so that the 73 indicators are presented categorised under 6 themes from the Sustainable Development Goals:

• Sustainability
• Health
• Education
• Gender Equality
• Work
• Poverty, Peace and Justice

In the 2019 report the male rate of admissions for alcoholic disorders to psychiatric hospitals was more than 50% higher than the female rate, and for other drug disorders admissions for males was more than three times that of females (health chapter).