Topics for discussion, essays or public speaking

1. Problems encountered in trying to achieve balance between the interests of women and of men.
2. The two most damaging restrictions on women in Independent Ireland, in my opinion.
3. Do the women of Ireland betray those who struggled for women's suffrage?
4. The implications for society of women on juries.
5. Restrictions on women's paid work in times of unemployment.
6. Economic dependence of married women on their husbands in Ireland, 1923-1990.
7. Female emigration from Ireland in the years 1926-1936.
8. Women and Bunreacht na hÉireann: the Constitution of Ireland.
9. The influence of the USA on equality for women and men.
10. The First Commission on the Status of Women.
11. The Irish Women's Liberation Movement.
12. Why attitudes to women changed since 1923.
13. The methods used by women's organisations to achieve equality.
14. Opposition to women's struggle for equality.
15. The role of women's organisations in Ireland since 1970.
16. The importance of raising awareness of women's issues.
17. The role of legal challenges in the campaign for women's rights.
18. The role of the EU in the campaign for equality between women and men.
19. The economic implications of equality for women and men.
20. The social implications of equality for women and men.
21. The competition between women's issues and other agendas in Irish politics.
22. Equality in the lives of women and men at present.
23. The extent to which women have gained or lost by the campaign for equality between women and men.
24. The extent to which men have gained or lost by the campaign for equality between women and men.
25. Women's organisations in your own area.
26. Women's issues in your own area in the years 1923-1990.