Irish women the main bread-winner in 33 percent of homes

Pressure to support families increasing

ANTOINETTE KELLY,

IrishCentral Staff Writer

Published Wednesday, October 26, 2011, 7:44 AM

Updated Wednesday, October 26, 2011, 9:49 AM

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More and more ladies become the bread winners in Irish homes

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Over one in three Irish women are now the sole income earners in their homes, a new study has revealed.

Irish women are being increasingly pressured to support their families, with a shocking 69 per cent of irish families now struggling to make ends meet.

The study has also revealed that almost half of of all Irish households have been affected by the recession, in most cases through the loss of a job or the reduction in work hours or salary.

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'There is a huge pressure on women today, and while it is human nature that a mother would put her child's health before her own, I would urge mothers to make sure they look after their own health and wellbeing,' Doctor Mary Henry, an advocate on women's health issues in Ireland told the Herald.

'On a positive note, I was pleased to see that the number of women having various types of health screening is on the rise. The number of women having cervical smear tests is up from 29 percent in 2010 to 34 percent this year, and the number having mammograms remains stead at 19 percent.'

Although this years health screening numbers have improved the study has raised concerns about the lack of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI's) screenings among the Irish population.

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jimmybb | Oct 26, 2011, 09:21 PM EDT

women of the feminist movement have spent the last 40 yrs socially engineering society to be on par in the workplace so whars good 4 the goose is good 4 the gander suck it up ladies

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jimmybb | Oct 26, 2011, 08:30 PM EDT

really wow have i stumbled onto ;;womansway ;; feminist gripe an bellyaching page about time women did their share

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mayoman | Oct 26, 2011, 01:18 PM EDT

Good for you Portia777. Yor're absolutely correct.

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Portia777 | Oct 26, 2011, 11:40 AM EDT

If the work done by women in the home, child raising etc was deemed work in the male sense and paid for, then 100% of women would be the bread winners. Note how it is only male work that is deemed worthy of pay, but not natural work, which is considered every woman's duty in patriarchal Eire etc. Wake up ladies, Mary Henry is correct and what is not mentioned here is the deliberate plan to force women to work long hours, do housework, etc, thus wearing them out and making them ill - then declaring them waek compared to males. This is typical patriarchy- divide and conquer. Wombmen expected to become equal to men, when it fact it should be the other way around. Throughout Irish his story, it was the women who kept the farms going and provided food for the family. it has always been so, but rarely spoken of.

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cillowen | Oct 26, 2011, 11:19 AM EDT

its always been thus - those on the farms were the glue. Those off the farms males largely drank every penny, sorry, McCourt's is not the only sad story.

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