The Personal is Political: Performing Saint Joan in the Twenty-First Century

Contemporary theater makers aiming to present feminist-inflected interpretation of Shaw\u27s Saint Joan could benefit from the practice of intertextuality: examining feminist playwrights\u27 versions of Joan\u27s story. Two plays by contemporary writers, Carolyn Gage\u27s The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Martha Kemper\u27s Me, Miss Krause and Joan can illuminate the most pressing contemporary issues, highlighting the ways that Shaw\u27s version overlaps with current feminist concerns, including intersectionality, positionality, and sexual assault. Such a process would empower performers and audience members alike, and would help playwrights, directors, and dramaturgs avoid some of the pitfalls exhibited in the recent rock musical Joan of Arc: Into the Fire. Also, since audiences in the United States and Canada are increasingly female-dominated and plays by women often make more money, such strategies not only could engender more culturally sensitive productions but also possibly even result in a higher box office return

Sleeping in Tall Grass by Richard Therrien

Review of Richard Therrien\u27s Sleeping in Tall Grass

Work Rich, Time Poor? Time-Use of Women and Men in Ireland

Are we running out of time? This paper uses data from a recently completed time-use survey in Ireland to consider whether the recent employment growth has led to high workloads, time-pressure and a lack of free time. We examine levels of total committed time, that is, time spent on employment/education, unpaid work (caring and household work) and travel, across different groups in the population. We find high workloads among the employed and those caring for young children and adults. High levels of committed time are found to be associated with greater subjective feelings of time-pressure. Our evidence suggests that recent employment growth is likely to have contributed to time poverty and feelings of time-pressure.

European Survey Data on Attitudes to Equality and Human Rights Technical Paper. Research Series

This report maps the data available on attitudes to equality and human rights issues in Ireland collected in European surveys over the period 2000 to 2018. These surveys provide a rich source of evidence for researchers and policymakers in Ireland. We identify a total of 1,509 relevant questions from a search of over 125 attitude surveys. These questions are categorised according to the groups and topics addressed. We find that attitudes towards minority ethnic/nationality groups, gender/gender roles and social welfare recipients are the most widely covered. Questions on attitudes towards religious minorities, age groups/ageism, family status, disability and sexual orientation are much less common. Moreover, while the frequency of attitude questions relating to sexual orientation has increased over the period, questions on age and disability groups have declined. Within these equality groups the surveys cover a range of topics including social distance, social contact, tolerance and policy preferences

Equality and Discrimination: Lessons from a Research Programme and a Conference. ESRI Research Bulletin 2011/1/1

Despite legislation outlawing discrimination across the EU, inequalities between groups appear to be an enduring feature of Irish and European societies. The extent to which inequality is due to discrimination is a matter of continuing debate and controversy. Accurately measuring discrimination is therefore a crucial yet challenging task. This has been a central focus of a research programme on equality and discrimination carried out by the Economic and Social Research Institute and the Equality Authority since 2006, and was the theme of the conference ‘Making Equality Count’ held in Dublin in June 2010. Drawing on economics, sociology and social psychology, the book from the conference, Making Equality Count, highlights advances that have been made in the measurement of discrimination, as well as the range of evidence that has been accumulated on this topic in recent decades.† Here we give a flavour of the measurement issues and the salient findings from the book.†

COVID-19 and non-Irish nationals in Ireland. ESRI Report December 2020.

In this report we examine the impact of COVID‐19 on the labour force outcomes of non‐Irish nationals compared to their Irish peers using Labour Force Survey data. In addition, we examine the proportion of non‐Irish nationals who are likely to be ‘key workers’ using Labour Force Survey data collected prior to the pandemic. We also briefly compare statistics on COVID‐19 cases and deaths by nationality (whether or not someone is an Irish citizen) and ethnicity (their self‐defined ethnic group)

The Impact of Flexible Working Arrangements on Work-Life Conflict and Work Pressure in Ireland. ESRI WP189. April 2007

Recent rapid economic growth in Ireland has been accompanied by a strong surge in the number of women in employment, and this has led to a significant increase in the proportion of dual-earner families. These changes have brought the issue of reconciliation between work and care commitments to the fore. Flexible working arrangements in firms have been identified as one important means of balancing work and other commitments (Evans 2001). In this paper we investigate the relationship between four flexible working arrangements – flexi-time, part-time hours, working from home and job-share – and two key employee outcomes – work pressure and work-life conflict, using data from the first national survey of employees in Ireland in 2003. Our results show that while part-time work and flexi-time tend to reduce work pressure and work-life conflict, working from home is associated with greater levels of both work pressure and work-life conflict. We conclude that it is important to distinguish between flexible working arrangements to discover their potential for reducing work pressure and work-life conflict