This article examines film and television workers’ experience of mothering in Ireland and argues that not only are mothers constructed as a ‘problem’ in these Creative Industries workplaces because of their care work duties, but the ‘problem’ of work’s incompatibility with motherhood is presented as one to be ‘solved’ by mothers themselves. Drawing from the scholarship on motherhood in film and television work and 12 interviews with workers in the film and television Creative Industries sectors who are mothers, we undertake a thematic analysis to uncover common experiences and insights that are reflective of but depart in some ways from the literature. We identify four themes that suggest that motherhood remains Othered in film and television work and that balancing care work and motherhood remains a form of additional labour that mothers (almost exclusively) must undertake: managing pregnancy at work; maternity leave and the return to work; care for children while working; and mothers’ finding solutions.

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将母亲身份与创意产业工作结合起来：母亲们面临的问题

本文考察了爱尔兰电影和电视工作者的母性经历，认为母亲不仅因为照顾工作的职责而被视为这些创意产业工作场所的“问题”，而且还提出了工作与母性不相容的“问题”作为一个需要母亲们自己“解决”的问题。借鉴影视工作中的母性奖学金以及对影视创意产业部门中身为母亲的 12 名工作者的采访，我们进行了主题分析，以揭示反映但在某些方面与母性不同的共同经验和见解。文学。我们确定了四个主题，表明母性在电影和电视工作中仍然是“他者”，并且平衡护理工作和母性仍然是母亲（几乎完全）必须承担的一种额外劳动：在工作中管理怀孕；产假和重返工作岗位；工作之余照顾孩子；以及母亲们寻找解决方案的过程。