A Woman’s Work is the story of women’s quest for social and economic freedom in Ireland over the 100 years since the vote. It tells the story of women who protested the marriage and promotion bars in the workplace, women who fought against laws giving husbands the sole right to the family home and women’s lack of independent social welfare entitlements, housing and pensions. It also charts the struggle women experience having their voices heard in the Dail and on juries. Despite the vote’s promise of freedom, women’s work outside the home was seen as contrary to the needs of the new Irish State. A Woman’s Work will look at how laws and historical attitudes to women’s economic independence created a culture that is still, in some cases, continuing today.