Career advancement and family balance strategies of executive women
By Souha R. Ezzedeen, Kristen G. Ritchey. 2009
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore coping strategies devised by executive women in family relationships to advance their career and to maintain career/family balance.Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative methodology using a sample of 25 executive women explores career advancement and career/family balance strategies within work and family contexts.Findings – Analysis produces multiple career advancement and career/family balance strategies, including professional support, personal support, value system, and life course strategies such as the “ordering” of career and family, negotiating spousal support, and whether to have children.Research limitations/implications – Adaptive strategies facilitate engagement in career and family, even in challenging gender environments, encouraging continued research on executive women's advancement and career/family balance. The idiosyncratic nature of career/family balance calls for greater emphasis on the context and timing of career and family expe...
Subfields: Gender Studies, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science
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- Examining the moderating influence of gender on the relationships between work‐family antecedents and work‐family enrichment (2011, background): “Gender role socialization literature shows that men are socialized to give priority to the bread-earner role, whereas women are socialized to give priority to the homemaker and motherhood roles ( Ezzedeen and Ritchey, 2009”