International Women’s Day: In their element

A new book by photographer Beta Bajgartova, celebrating women who confound gender stereotypes, has been published today

Gunvor Anhøj

‘These images disrupt gender stereotypes, showing in a creative style that women can achieve and strive in every part of life.”

That’s how Orla O’Connor, director of the National Women’s Council of Ireland, describes the portraits on these pages, and those featured throughout A Woman’s Work, a new coffee table book produced by Dublin-based photographer Beta Bajgartova.

The book, set for release this Wednesday – International Women’s Day – was indeed conceived as ...