1. Female Workforce
1.1. Increase of 100,000 female workers between 1971 and 1991
2. Free Second Level Education
2.1. Numbers in Third Level education increased
2.1.1. 1967 = 152,039
2.1.1.1. 1975 = 256,672
3. Print Censorship
3.1. Oscar Traynor, Minister for Justice, gradually reduced church's power in print censorship.
3.1.1. Censorship Act 1967
3.1.1.1. Brian Lenihan reduced permanent ban on publications to 12 years.
4. Subjugation of Women
4.1. Marriage Bar
4.1.1. Jury Service
4.1.1.1. Contraception
4.1.1.1.1. Drink in a pub
5. 1963
5.1. 'The Feminine Mystique' by Betty Friedan
5.1.1. Critique of "female domestication"
5.1.1.1. Advertising/Women's magazines/Education critiqued
5.1.1.1.1. Suffragette Movement = call to arms
6. Women Today (1979-1984) Marian Finucane
6.1. Nightlife
6.1.1. Hysterectomy
6.1.1.1. Cult of the Virgin Mary
6.1.1.1.1. Women at work
7. Kerry Babies (1984)
7.1. Tribunal was was “about the mattresses and the men in Joanne Hayes’ life, and her private behaviour with them.” (Nell McCafferty, Irish Pictorial, 16th January 1984)
7.1.1. Joanne Hayes framed for murder of baby washed up on beach.
7.1.1.1. Family was arrested and forced to sign confessions.
7.1.1.1.1. Blood tests proved her innocence.
8. 1937 Constitution
8.1. "Her right within the home"
9. Anna Kelly/Irish Press
9.1. "assumption that women take no interest in general news"
9.1.1. geared towards "female interest" e.g. cooking, household products, etc.
10. Popular Culture
10.1. Introduction of US acts loosened chru
10.1.1. The Late Late Show acted as platform to discuss taboo topics like contraception or divorces
11. 1968 - Irish Times
11.1. Mary Maher "Women First" section
11.1.1. Training facilities for nurses
11.1.1.1. Contraception
11.1.1.1.1. Equal Pay
12. Irish Women's Liberation Movement
12.1. Chains or Change
12.1.1. All-Female Late Late Show March 1971
12.1.1.1. Interrupted by Garrett Fitzgerald
13. Anne Lovett (1984)
13.1. “Girl, 15, dies after giving birth in field”.
13.1.1. Led to discussion of teenage pregnancy in public sphere
13.1.1.1. Ended Ireland's reputation as "The Island of Saints and Scholars"
14. Counter Revolution
14.1. Divorce unavailable
14.1.1. Conservative Ireland rallied against.
14.1.1.1. Pope John Paul II visit in 1979 spoke against campaigners
14.1.1.1.1. Divorce referendum defeated in 1986, narrowly passed in 1995.