'I feel hurt': Many women reminded of marriage bar when they collect reduced pensions

'Can you honestly see nothing wrong with the way women of my age are treated?' Mary Walsh asked this question of An Taoiseach Micheál Martin about The Marriage Bar which prevented married women from working

The Irish Women's Liberation Movement opposed the marriage bar and rallied against it in the 1970s. Pic: Irish Times archive

Until 1973, Irish women were forced to resign from work due to The Marriage Bar, and many women are reminded of it weekly when they collect their reduced pensions. The possibility of rectifying the pension inequality caused by the bar is now the concern of an Oireachtas committee.

Mary Walsh regularly tells her children to never forget how the State aggrieved her.