Neither ruthless militants nor tentative coffee party ? : a comparative analysis of the aims, activities and accomplishments of the Irish Women Graduates' Associations (IWGAs) and the German Federation of University Women (DAB) during th 1950s and 1960s

Abstract

This thesis is a comparative analysis of the activities, aims and accomplishments of the German Federation of University Women ("Deutscher Akademikerinnenbund", DAB) and the Irish Women Graduates' Associations (IWGAs) during the 1950s and the 1960s. The main research objective has been to establish whether these two women graduates' organizations contributed to continuing an active women's movement at a time when the political, social and cultural environment of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Ireland was largely impervious to women's demands for de jure and de facto equality.