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| Tekijä: | Wood, G.J. Newton, J. |
| Otsikko: | Childlessness and women managers: choice, context and discourses |
| Lehti: | Gender, Work and Organization
2006 : JUL, VOL. 13:4, p. 338-358 |
| Asiasana: | children gender women executives |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | The topic of this paper is childlessness, which might reflect acceptance of diversity, scope for individual choice and a creative "social imaginary" about being feminine without being a mother. According to the authors, it appears to have a contextual manifestation arising from the recignition that the long-hours work culture in many organizations does not support appropriate parenting. A qualitative study of Australian managers suggests that the contradictory dicsourses of childlessness around enlightened equality, maternalism, an elusive, ideal "work-life balance" and individualism. This paper investigates a contextually nuanced, dynamic, generative theory of agency which does not focus on the mother-child dyad, in explaining women managers' choices to remain childless. |
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