Policy from Victorian times fails Irish women
"Have we put enough effort and confidence into working out original Irish solutions?"
By the time Frances Campion left work to have her first child, aged 26, in 1977, she had already been working for ten years.
Three more children and 19 years later, she returned to the workplace. So when she reaches retirement age, next year, she’ll have spent 30 years in paid employment, as well as her 19 years caring full time for her children.
Were Frances younger, that would qualify her for the ...
