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Chapter 22
Women In The Twentieth-Century Ireland
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was a Womens' status compared to a mans' in the 1900s | In 1900, women were legally inferior to men. |
| What was the first thing women wanted to achieve in order to advance women's rights | Women across the world saw getting the vote as the key to advancing women’s rights in other areas. |
| What was their campaign for voting rights called | The campaign for voting rights was called SUFFRAGE and the women who campaigned were called suffragettes. |
| What did Hanna Sheehy-Skeffingtton found in 1908 | In 1908, Hanna Sheehy- Skeffington founded the Irish Women’s Franchise League (IWFL). |
| about what percentage of university students were women and from what backgrounds were they usually from | about 10% of university students were women, but only those from wealthy and middle-class backgrounds. |
| who spearheaded the campaign for the admission of female students and when was it achieved | Alice Oldham spearheaded the campaign for the admission of female students to Trinity College, which was finally achieved in 1904. |
| What were women expected to do in the early twentieth century | In the early part of the twentieth century, women were expected to marry and have children. |
| Did some women work before they got married | Yes |
| What did women have to do with their jobs once they got married | Some women worked before they got married (45% of national school teachers were women) but they had to give up those jobs on marriage. |
| What did poorer women work as and how did their wages compare to mens wages | Poorer women, especially single ones, often worked outside the home as domestic servants (maids, cooks, nannies), as street traders in larger cities and in the Belfast mills, where they were paid lower wages than men. |
| What right did the 1922 constitution of the Irish Free State give women | The 1922 Constitution of the Irish Free State gave the vote to all women and men over the age of 21. |
| at this time what was the voting age for British Women | At this time, the voting age for British women was 30, but only for particularly privileged women. |
| No woman was elected to the Dáil until Who got elected as what | No woman was appointed as a government minister until 1979, when Máire Geoghegan-Quinn became Minister for the Gaeltacht. |
| What was the widespread opinion on a womens role in society | The view that a woman’s place is in the home was widespread and accepted by most men and women. |
| what 3 'laws' were stacked against women | Divorce and contraception were banned. Women could not sit on juries. The 1937 Constitution recognised a woman’s special role ‘within the home’. |
| After independence, what work did women continue | many women continued to work as domestic servants or in low-paid jobs – always for lower pay than men. |
| What was the marriage bar | women automatically lost their jobs in the public service (for example as teachers or government officials) when they got married. Many employers followed suit and it became accepted that most women would give up work when they married. |
| What was the Conditions of Employment Act | In 1936, the government passed the Conditions of Employment Act, which limited the number of women in any industry. Trade unions often encouraged employers to pay men more and fire women first. |
| What were the results of these acts | The result of these measures was that in 1946, only 2.5% of married Irish women were in employment, as opposed to 25% in Britain. It is perhaps no surprise that women emigrated from Ireland at much higher rates than men in the 1940s and 1950s. |
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