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Gendering inequalities: the case of Irish women

Gendering inequalities: the case of Irish women Irish women Gendering inequalities: the case of agency of an Irish President is politically limited but the role has a central symbolic importance—the President is both a figure-head at home and the nation's highest representative abroad. Robinson, in her previous roles of barrister and national senar, pioneered many of the contemporary contestations of legislative and other forms of gender discrimination. Her successful case work included the provision of legal aid, tax reform for married women, access contraception, improved social welfare and pension rights for women. She also publicly supported the pro-divorce and pro-choice abortion campaigns in relation the proposed amendments the constitution. That this radical agency might now be curtailed was arguably the down-side of the 'triumph' of her election. In Ocber 1991, The Irish Times covered the President's American ur. Robinson was awarded an honorary degree from Brown University and, on the one hundredth anniversary of women's admission the university, her public address concerned the role of women in society. The President cautioned feminists against the dangers of 'arrogance [and] ideology' and feared that 'women were failing sufficiently value the activities and concerns of many women in home-making and bringing up children'. She then asked whether 'by http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Paragraph Edinburgh University Press

Gendering inequalities: the case of Irish women

SHARKEY, SABINA
Paragraph , Volume 16 (1): 5 – Mar 1, 1993
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Irish women Gendering inequalities: the case of agency of an Irish President is politically limited but the role has a central symbolic importance—the President is both a figure-head at home and the nation's highest representative abroad. Robinson, in her previous roles of barrister and national senar, pioneered many of the contemporary contestations of legislative and other forms of gender discrimination. Her successful case work included the provision of legal aid, tax reform for married women, access contraception, improved social welfare and pension rights for women. She also publicly supported the pro-divorce and pro-choice abortion campaigns in relation the proposed amendments the constitution. That this radical agency might now be curtailed was arguably the down-side of the 'triumph' of her election. In Ocber 1991, The Irish Times covered the President's American ur. Robinson was awarded an honorary degree from Brown University and, on the one hundredth anniversary of women's admission the university, her public address concerned the role of women in society. The President cautioned feminists against the dangers of 'arrogance [and] ideology' and feared that 'women were failing sufficiently value the activities and concerns of many women in home-making and bringing up children'. She then asked whether 'by

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