How things have changed - just ten things that Irish women could not do in 1970s

[ismnotwasm]

1. Keep their jobs in the public service or in a bank once they married

2. Sit on a jury

3. Buy contraceptives

4. Drink in a pub

5. Collect their Children’s Allowance

6. Women were unable to get a barring order against a violent partner

7. Before 1976 they were unable to own their home outright

8. Women could not refuse to have sex with their husband

9. Choose her official place of residence


10. Women could not get the same pay for jobs as men


http://www.irishcentral.com/news/How-things-have-changed---ten-things-that-Irish-women-could-not-do-in-1970s-183526621.html?mob-ua=Y

[niyad]

1. and yet, we have people in this country who would like to take us even further back than that.

[Dawson Leery]

2. Those laws existed because of the RCC.

[redqueen]

3. Wrong. nt

[AverageJoe90]

4. It's almost as if Ireland had never had a revolution at all back then.

It was LONG overdue, TBH.