How times have changed! 1982 government files just released in Ireland show that a leading Irish women’s organization had great contempt for the idea of women working outside the home and the notion of career women and new freedoms that women were enjoying back then.
The letter to-then Irish leader Charles Haughey from the head of the Irish Housewives Union Una Nic Mathuna (Una McMahon), stated women who worked outside the home were completely wrong to do so and noted “some of whom occasionally play at housework and just as occasionally are part-time mothers."
The letter claimed that a request for childcare facilities were “A typical career women’s demand. It simply means that they want to dump their one/two kids on the taxpayer.”
The letter also dismissed the notion that there was any call from Irish housewives for family planning clinics, post-abortion counseling services, sex education classes, having the contraceptive pill “pushed” on them, nor did they want pre-menstrual advice clinics – which they called “disgusting” and “never, never brought up by our decent women.”
Ah yes, times have changed!
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.Portia_O'Neill | Jan 01, 2013, 12:47 PM EST
The story is inaccurate.
marsman | Jan 01, 2013, 06:48 AM EST
Thank God Jesus never told anyone to be part of a congregation, a church, nor to go to church. Instead he suggested this: "And if you pray go into your room ..." (Matth. 6, 6)
cillowen | Dec 30, 2012, 06:08 PM EST
right - not equality but want to be on top. Notice the ads zooming in on the "you know what" in pants backside zooming views or pant leg separation - fine for some ladies if not all? Leaving guys with great expectation ending in slap bang order of protection. LOL
hollabackgurl | Dec 30, 2012, 08:52 AM EST
Ireland had a small core of theocrats then and it does now. They were absurd and backward looking then then and they still are now.