O'Brien, Anne and Liddy, Susan (2021) The price of motherhood in the Irish film and television industries. Gender, Work & Organization, 28 (6). pp. 1997-2009. ISSN 0968-6673

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Abstract

This study describes the gendered challenges that mothers face when working in Irish film and television industries. Data were derived from a snowball sample of 44 mothers located in multiple genres of film and television production. The key findings are first, there is a systemic bias against mothers, not just a gender bias against them as women but an additional and more specific bias against them as mothers; second, there is evidence that mothers internalize the marginalization that comes from their maternal status. Many of the respondents accepted the inequality and maternal penalty they experienced as inevitable and “the way it is” and so made no demands that the industry change; and third, many mothers described various adaptations that help them to sustain their working lives, but they were rarely supported in those adaptations by the screen production industry. The impact and consequences of maternal inequality need to be examined and addressed further by industry in order to better include the voices of mothers in cultural productions.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Cite as: O'Brien, A., & Liddy, S. (2021). The price of motherhood in the Irish film and television industries. Gender, Work & Organization, 28( 6), 1997– 2009. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12612
Keywords:	film; inequality; motherhood; television;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Arts & Humanities > School of English, Media & Theatre Studies > Media Studies
Item ID:	16286
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12612
Depositing User:	Anne O'Brien
Date Deposited:	12 Jul 2022 09:56
Journal or Publication Title:	Gender, Work & Organization
Publisher:	Wiley
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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