Some private companies applied it. A colleague of mine told me she had to leave a private sector job because she got married. She ended up in the HSE when she was in her early 50s.Did the marriage ban apply only in the public service?
A colleague of mine told me she had to leave a private sector job because she got married.
It also applied in the banks, and in some semistates like Aer Lingus. That spawned an interesting court case that went all the way to the Supreme Court. What happened was that after the marriage bar was lifted quite a few hostesses (as they were then called!) were re-employed. However, they were taken back on as if they were new recruits, on lesser pay and terms and conditions than their unmarried colleagues, with equivalent service, who hadn't had to resign on marriage. As this was now after the 1977 Equality Act had come into effect, that later unequal treatment was found to be unlawful discrimination and they eventually, many, many years later, got some compensation.Did the marriage ban apply only in the public service?
However the pension thing still bugs me especially as they refused to give me a statement of my class D payments
We were certainly told Ireland was in a recession in 1975 when I finished the LC. Almost everyone who wasn't going straight to university in my class emigrated. I think one person got a job in Ireland. It was almost impossible to get a job, so we mostly emigrated. Whatever the stats and economists say.Off-topic, but this is false. There was no recession in the 70s. There was a bad recession in early 1980s, and very bad until 1986/87.
See table 6 here:
She's still alive, but she's in her in her late 70s,possibly 80s. She retired a good few years ago, I can't remember exactly but I still call her a colleague.The marriage bar was abolished in 1974. A 21-year-old who was forced to resign on marriage would be 70 now.
The vast majority of women who ever suffered from this policy are by now deceased.
I don't know if it was officially a recession but money was tight in out house of 5 kids. Obviously we didn't notice but my Mom told me she worried about money / paying bills etc a lot until we got jobs.We were certainly told Ireland was in a recession in 1975 when I finished the LC. Almost everyone who wasn't going straight to university in my class emigrated. I think one person got a job in Ireland. It was almost impossible to get a job, so we mostly emigrated. Whatever the stats and economists say.
There was a sharp recession in Ireland in the mid-70s, triggered by a rapid rise in oil prices and runaway international inflation. The same conditions caused the IMF to take over management of the British exchequer in 1976.Off-topic, but this is false. There was no recession in the 70s. There was a bad recession in early 1980s, and very bad until 1986/87.
See table 6 here:
Hardly “sharp” - GDP per capita fell by 0.2% in 1976.There was a sharp recession in Ireland in the mid-70s,
Sharp enough if you were at the wrong end of it. Remember the craic on Hall's Pictorial Weekly about the Minister for Hardship et al?Hardly “sharp” - GDP per capita fell by 0.2% in 1976.
The 2000s also saw excellent per capita GNP growth but also a vicious recession.Overall the 1970s saw per capita GDP growth of nearly 50%.
We were certainly told Ireland was in a recession in 1975 when I finished the LC. Almost everyone who wasn't going straight to university in my class emigrated. I think one person got a job in Ireland. It was almost impossible to get a job, so we mostly emigrated. Whatever the stats and economists say.
We have got into semantics about the word “recession” - GDP and other acronyms are a well used shield describing recession. That’s why I used the words “real recession” and to be blatant the recession of 2005 was a doddle compared to real recessions earlier. When one of our offspring graduated from university she along with 100 per cent of graduates of the faculty emigrated to find employment. That was a real recession.
We did. In the Bank of Ireland and AIB, women received a sum of money on resignation but men didn't. A group of us men issued legal proceedings and it was settled out of court.And what about those chaps who wanted to identify as a woman but couldn't. Maybe they should sue too?
The constitution still has women in the home
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