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It’s barely more than 40 years since a woman had to surrender her job in the public service or a bank when she got married. 

It’s hardly 50 years since women were not allowed to sit on a jury. Neither could a woman, in the disco-coloured 1970s, collect her children’s allowance without her husband’s permission — it had to be her husband because gender-neutral partners had not been invented.

In reality, women in Irish society four or five decades ago were almost closer to the hidden, silent and more or less interned women of extreme Islam today than they are to the Irish women of today. The transition is not by any means complete, nor has it been by any means perfect, but it has made this a far better society and a far better place to be a woman whether working inside or outside the home.