We need to stop tax system incentivising dual-income families

BRING back the marriage bar! Hah — that got you reading! OK, I’m not arguing for women to be turfed out of jobs if they getmarried. As we all know, that was what happened to married women in civil service, teaching and banking jobs in Ireland from the 1930s until 1958 for teachers, and 1973 for the rest.

We need to stop tax system incentivising dual-income families

But I am arguing for work to be shared out more fairly. And that was what the marriage bar was about in the first place.

During the celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the end of the marriage bar this summer no-one made the point that the bar was about providing for families in an era of unemployment.

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