Reporters: JEREMY JAMES
JEANNE LA CHARD , JOHN PITMAN
JACK PIZZEY , DESMOND WILCOX HAROLD WILLIAMSON This week:
What About Our Rights?
Traditionally the Irish woman has been led to believe that it's a noble thing to put up with a bad marriage and in actual fact she's laying up treasures for herself in the world after ... We have got to have a change in our approach to family law, we've got to have it made easier for a woman to get out of the bad marriage situation
(NUALA FENNELL)
In the Republic of Ireland, women who have played a traditionally passive role are beginning to rebel. They believe it's a myth that all Irish eyes are smiling in a land of happy families. They point to mothers of enormous families who are denied the Pill, unmarried mothers who are forced to have their babies adopted, deserted wives who have little redress.
One of the leaders of the campaign, journalist Nuala Fennell , has just written a book Irish Marriage, How Are You? It takes a hard, bitter look at the way women have to suffer in a male dominated society.
JEANNE LA CHARD and a Man Alive team talked to her and to some of the women who are demanding ' What About Our Rights? '
Producer BRIAN JAMES Editor ADAM CLAPEAM