Dr Margret Fine-Davis, Social Psychologist

Over a glass of wine in the Senior Common Room, Dr Fine-Davis will share her perspectives on changing social attitudes and the role of women in Ireland. We will discuss whether this has effected family formation and the workplace.

Dr Fine-Davis, is a social psychologist and Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin. Her primary research interests are changing gender-role attitudes and social psychological and policy issues related to women’s employment. She has carried out numerous surveys of social attitudes in Ireland, as well as some cross-national European ones. She is the author of several books, including Women and Work in Ireland: A Half Century of Attitude and Policy Change (Routledge, 2021), Changing Gender Roles and Attitudes to Family Formation in Ireland (Manchester University Press, 2016), Gender Roles in Ireland: Three Decades of Attitude Change (Routledge, 2015). She is co-author of the cross-national study, Fathers and Mothers: Dilemmas of the Work-Life Balance: A Comparative Study in Four European Countries (Kluwer, 2004).

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There is €15 fee for all attendees with proceeds going towards Trinity Access Programme.