- Title
- Childlessness and women managers : 'Choice', context and discourses
- Creator
- Wood, Glenice; Newton, Janice
- Date
- 2006
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/32158
- Identifier
- vital:949
- Identifier
-
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0432.2006.00311.x
- Identifier
- ISSN:0968-6673
- Abstract
- Childlessness is increasing and might reflect acceptance of diversity, scope for individual choice and a creative 'social imaginary' about being feminine without being a mother. Childlessness also appears to have a contextual manifestation arising from the recognition that the long-hours work culture in many organizations does not support appropriate parenting. A qualitative study of Australian managers reveals the contradictory discourses of childlessness around enlightened equality, maternalism, an elusive, ideal 'work-life balance' and individualism. The article explores a contextually nuanced, dynamic, generative theory of agency which does not hinge on the mother-child dyad, in explaining women managers' choices to remain childless. © Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2006.; C1
- Publisher
- Blackwell
- Relation
- Gender, Work and Organization Vol. 13, no. 4 (2006), p. 338-358
- Rights
- Copyright Blackwell Publishing
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1503 Business and Management; Childlessness; Gender; Managers; Women; Feminism; Gender issue
- Full Text
- Reviewed
- Hits: 2566
- Visitors: 2953
- Downloads: 447
| Thumbnail | File | Description | Size | Format | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| View Details Download | DS1 | Accepted version | 96 KB | Adobe Acrobat PDF | View Details Download |