The Citizens' Assembly is meeting in Dublin this weekend to hold discussions on gender equality.
People will gather for five weekends between now and July for presentations, roundtable discussions, and feedback sessions.
The assembly will look at gender norms and stereotypes, recent developments, and the evolution of the Irish family.
Those taking part are a randomly selected group of 50 men and 50 women said to be broadly representative of the electorate.
The recommendations of the assembly will be presented to the Dáil and the Seanad.
Chairperson of the assembly Dr Catherine Day says there is a lot to talk about.
She said: "We're working on a list of topics that were given to us by the Dáil and the Seanad and this weekend we're focusing on two topics.
"One is social norms and stereotypes that lead to discrimination between women and men.
"The second is what the Irish Constitution says about the family and are there things in it that should be changed or are the citizens within the assembly happy with what the Constitution currently says."
Gender pay gap
Meanwhile, Fine Gael MEP for Dublin Frances Fitzgerald has said that if women don't get into technology careers there could be a larger pension gender gap.
The European Parliament this week called on EU countries to take strong action against all measures undermining women's rights.
Ms Fitzgerald says a strategy is being developed.
She said: "With the developments of AI and digital and technology, we're going to have an even bigger pension gap if people don't get into these areas.
"We have an unbelievable 40% pension gap at present between women and men for a whole variety of measures so we have to look at that issue.
"The gender pay gap, making sure we have binding pay transparency measures so companies and media organisations have to publish pay scales."
