Women in Ireland

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Across
  1. 2. - This act passed in 1936, limiting the number of women allowed to work.
  2. 7. - Female civil servants and teachers lost their jobs when they got married.
  3. 9. - This was nurse Elizabeth O’Carrolls job during the Rising
  4. 11. - Women did this in greater numbers then men due to rights limitations.
  5. 12. - Person who pushed for universities to allow women to enroll
  6. 14. - Referendum that passed in 1996 relating to marriages.
  7. 15. - Organisation that held great influence in Irish Government
  8. 16. - First female minister in Ireland in 1979
  9. 18. - Women who founded the Irish Womens Franchise League.
  10. 19. - Female Nationalist Movement during the Rising
  11. 20. - Percentage of university students that were women
  12. 21. - In 1908, Hanna Sheehy- Skeffington founded this organization
Down
  1. 1. - Age that women had to be to vote after the 1922 Constitution of Ireland
  2. 3. - First Female President of Ireland
  3. 4. - a report encouraging the government to eliminate all aspects of inequality.
  4. 5. - What pay Act was introduced in 1974 regarding wages
  5. 6. - First University to allow entry of women, in 1904
  6. 8. - Countess who founded Cumann na Mban
  7. 10. - The Irish Constitution recognised a woman’s special role ‘within the ?’
  8. 13. - The campaign undertaken to get women the right to vote.
  9. 16. - A Controversy that saw a clash between the Irish State and the Catholic Church when Dr. Noel Browne proposed free healthcare for pregnant women and children.
  10. 17. - Fought in the rising and was the first woman elected to parliament