European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 8, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Doily Magazine Ireland the main War is the War of the sexes lawyer Robins othere has been drastic change in the Law has not yet caught by de Blanche associated press he conflict in Northern Ireland May get All the but the main War is the War of the so say Tim Pat editor of he Irish press and a wry commentator on Irish women in the Irish Republic Are seeking but a bad the Catholic Church and the male ego Are Tough foes in any theres a percent unemployment Rale in the Irish highest in the european common and 1 sparked a backlash Campaign to Send working mar women Back to Hearth aria one Catholic priest said in a radio phone in tire Grain on the state Tan Rte network the working wife it the greatest curse but Gemma one of the handful of women in the Irish parliament and a Champion of working says theres More to it than in the Altitude that a woman place is in the Home is embedded deep in the National formed by the Catholic men very much resent women changing the Raman Catholic Church in Ireland has traditionally maintained us influence through As the Linch pin of the said Ossie spokesman Cor the Dublin diocese there is a definite liberalization process within the Church that in some ways is More Radi Cal than the Mary a longtime agitator for a new Deal for Irish would be hard pressed to a 33yearold lawyer and professor of constitutional and criminal Law at Dublin prestigious Trinity said there has been drastic change la social Morel in recent but the Law has not Yel caught up with Ireland million women face a formidable Battery of Laws that appear draconian compared with the increasingly Liberal feminist legislation in Europe Sale of contraceptives is banned under the republics 40yearold although the nigh court ruled four Yean in a landmark that they May be imported by individuals for their own abortion is illegal under he constr lotion and bitterly opposed by the but thousands of Irish women go to England every year to terminate unwanted preg parliamentarian very much resent women changing january 197b 9 divorce is prohibited by the Constitution and Only a National referendum can change the Church has stonewalled moves to legalize divorce but has in recent Yean granted hundreds of annulments As the divorce Rale couples can get civil divorces outside but under the republics civil Law they Are still legally married and can be charged with bigamy if they a husband can bring criminal charges against his wife Lover for deprivation of services because in the eyes of the Law she is the husbands but the wife of an unfaithful husband cannot bring charges against his husbands charged with wife beating can get Legal but wives filing the charges have to pay for Legal rep a Man can collect unemployment checks even if Hes never worked a Day in his a woman has to work a full year before All this is naked says who won her Senate seat last september with a whopping a things Are beginning to but were far behind the times the Laws where women Are concerned Are where family affairs Are con especially weve got a Rotten Legal women also face inequality in the Barry president of the Irish medical recently urged a cutback inthe number of women in medi Cal schools because be said they tend to marry and quit the in official statistics show that women pay averages Only fid percent of it was Only in 1hj that women in the civil serv ice could stay on at their lobs after they at mar says but teens still no Feris Lathi ensuring thai women working id private Industry can get maternity leave and Lull have Jota to come Back women Are making some they staged several strikes demanding equal pay and Opportunity and were rewarded in the dying Days of the coalition government ousted last june when labor minister Michael Oleary pushed the employment Equality act through the and got lost in the political turmoil of the general but the Irish called it a revolutionary which could have far reaching implications for Irish society and which could Well prove to be the most important piece of legislation Ever affecting women in the election also put 12 women in and when prime minister Jack Lynch took office he named Marie Geoghega Quinn Asha parliamentary Secretary in the Industry the tint woman with government portfolio since Hussey believes the republics membership in the common Market has forced a change in Altitude towards women in Ireland and spawned a plethora of women or but the for change concede that us traditions of stay at Home and produce children Are still rooted deeply in particularly in Rural areas when the conservative influence is then Are thousands of women in the Countryside whore horrified at the very mention of one militant Treyve been brainwashed by centuries of narrow minded Church propaganda and the willing acquiescence of Irish men into believing the Only thing there Good for is producing huge families to keep the 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