Haram v. Halal

http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article179272.ece

Article and comments about women's situation in Saudi Arabia.

Far cry from Mna na h'Eireann......

Although, when was it we stopped making women retire from the civil service when they got married?

Bin Ridin said:

.........Although, when was it we stopped making women retire from the civil service when they got married?

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"Marriage Bar", The Encyclopaedia of Ireland
Author(s) - Fahey, T
Gill & Macmillan, Dublin, November 2003

Marriage Bar, the requirement that women leave paid employment on getting married. Such a requirement emerged in many countries, including the Republic, in the 1930s in response to high unemployment. It applied mainly to women’s white- collar occupations, in both the public and private sector, rather than to lower-level industrial or service occupations. In many countries the marriage bar waned in the 1950s when labour shortages became widespread; in Ireland, where labour surpluses have been larger and more long-standing than in most countries, it persisted until the 1970s – except for primary teachers, for whom the marriage bar was lifted in 1957 in response to a temporary shortage of teachers. The marriage bar was abolished in the public sector in 1973, and discrimination in employment on grounds of sex was made generally illegal in 1977.