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History- Women
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Things women were not allowed to do in the early 20th century | Vote Limited education Marry Children Stay at home |
| Married Women | Better-off married women did not go out to work |
| Tasks of married women to sustain the family | Supervised servants (in rich cases) House cleaners Street traders Mills or factories |
| Tasks of women in rural areas | Outdoor work on the fam Housework Market |
| Single women | Often became domestic servants Emigration |
| What happened after Ireland got its independence in 1922? | Nothing changed Emigration |
| Until when? | 1960's |
| What happened in the 1960's? | More women went to work outside the home |
| What jobs were common? | Teaching, nursing, civil service and office jobs |
| What was used to cope with the demand of home and family? | Birth control |
| What kind of schools did the number of women increase in? | Convent secondary schools |
| Famous Irish suffragette | Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington |
| Suffragette | A person who campaigned for votes for women |
| Franchise | Campaigning for women's right to vote |
| What did HSS found? | Irish Women's Franchise League |
| When? | 1908 |
| Who opposed votes to women? | John Redmond and Edward Carson |
| What happened during WW1? | Men were off fighting, so women got jobs in factories, offices, banks, schools and hospitals |
| When were women allowed to vote? | 1918, after the role women played in WW1 |
| Over what age? | 30 |
| First female elected to parliament | Countess Markievicz |
| Part of what groups? | Sinn Féin, Cumann na mBan, 1916 Rising, Irish Citizen Army |
| Rules introduced by the Free State in 1922 were what? | Conservative (old-fashioned, traditional) |
| Where was a woman's place? | In the home |
| How did things change for women in the 1960's | Access to Education American Influence Growing economy- more job opportunities Ireland joined UN (1955) and EEC (1973) who forced Ireland to bring in laws to eliminate gender inequality |
| What was set up in 1970? | Commission for the Status of Women |
| What was issued in 1972 and what did it do? | Report, lifted marriage bar and introduces Employment Equality Act 1977 |
| IWLM | Irish Women's Liberation Movement |
| Widespread Publicity | Late Late Show, Contraceptive Train to Belfast (they were banned in the South) |
| First Female President | Mary Robinson |
| When? | 1990 |
| Second Female President | Mary McAleese |
| When? | 1997 |
| Problems still existing | Exploiting women, e.g. in advertising Traditionally male organisations slow to accept women Pay gap Gap in number of women in managerial positions |
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