Anne O’Brien is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media Studies at Maynooth University. She has also published a number of articles on the representation of women in radio and television, on women workers in creative industries and examined why women leave careers in screen production. Her book Women, Inequality and Media Work was published by Routledge in 2019.
With colleagues Anne has published the following articles:
O’ Brien, A., & Arnold, S. (2024). Combining motherhood and work in the creative industries: Mothers have the problem. Media, Culture and Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437241229327
Arnold, S., O’Brien, A., Kaminskaitė-Jančorienė, L., & Šalaj, J. (2024). “I never thought about how much of a juggle it would be”: motherhood and work in contemporary Lithuanian and Irish creative industries. Feminist Media Studies, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2024.2359494
O’ Brien, A. (2024). The subjectivity load: Negotiating the internalization of “mother” and “creative worker” identities in creative industries. Gender, Work & Organization.https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13157
