This essay will analyze the position of women in Ireland in the post-1922 period with reference to legislation and socio-economic changes in thematic order. The topics covered will be education for work and family in the Catholic Church with reference to primary and secondary subjects. Female emigration will also be mentioned in relation to female job opportunities abroad. The essay will end in 1973, when Ireland joins the European Union, which represents the final point of the course. From the discussion of the various legislations and acts that were implemented during this period various questions will be considered, for example: what do these legislations reveal about the opinion or role of Irish women in post-1922 society? And did independence lead to equal rights for women? In the early 1900s women were treated differently than men, they were second class citizens. Most women have not attended the second or third level of education. Irish women married at a young age and often had large families. They were expected to stay at home and raise their children. Many did not have careers outside the home and therefore were financially dependent on their husbands. Women played a vital role in the early 1920s in the Republican Army, but references to women in such historical events are not mentioned or discussed, and women have not yet received any recognition in any sense of the word. Most women were helpless without their own income only when the option of emigration was available where they could emigrate, be economically independent and not marry at a young age. Emigration is an important part of Irish history. It can be seen in the pre-famine years as well as the post-famine era of the 20th century: “Half of the great...... center of the paper......and on law and social opinion. Women were given the opportunity to vote, work outside the home, and have sexual freedom. From this change we see that there is a small percentage of women who are able to confront and challenge oppression. What if we went back 70 years and asked ourselves: will women ever be liberated, equal to men, independent? The answer would have been absolutely no because people were influenced by Church and State, it was only when people became educated and moved away from Church and State that legislation was removed and socio-economic changes occurred. “A deeper understanding of equality is based not on the occupation of masculine norms but on the end of women's oppression, that is, on a situation in which every woman can freely and confidently adopt her own life path and make authentic decisions about her life as a woman.” .