Main Breadwinner Women in Hungary and Their Work-family Balance Related Coping Strategies
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Tartalom: http://intersections.tk.mta.hu/index.php/intersections/article/view/170
Archívum: Intersections
Gyűjtemény: Work-life balance/imbalance: Individual, Organizational and Social Experiences
Cím:
Main Breadwinner Women in Hungary and Their Work-family Balance Related Coping Strategies
Létrehozó:
Neményi, Mária
Takács, Judit
Közreműködő:
European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no. 320116 for the research project FamiliesAndSocieties
Kiadó:
MTA Centre for Social Sciences, Hungary
Dátum:
2016-09-27
Tartalmi leírás:
In this study, being the first Hungarian qualitative study devoted to this subject, we focus on the work-life balance situation of Hungarian women acting as main breadwinners within their family. The empirical base of our study consisted of 22 in-depth interviews conducted with Hungarian mothers of dependent children younger than 14, living in (heterosexual) couple households, who bring in at least 60% of the total household earnings. We examined how the main breadwinner role might affect the gender norm expectations acquired during socialisation, the division of domestic labour and child care duties between the partners, as well as the internal power relations of the couple.According to our findings, various versions of work-life balance management could be identified even within our small-scale qualitative sample on the basis of two main dimensions.On the one hand, on the basis of our interviewees’ accounts we examined whether the partners had similar role expectations in terms of egalitarian sharing of family related tasks or traditionally gendered role specialisation. On the other hand, we have also considered to what extent other contextual factors contributed to women becoming primary breadwinners, and whether these were perceived in terms of external constraints or preferred choices (or both). On the basis of our analyses we have identified four models of family relations in the context of primary female breadwinning: the traditional, the egalitarian, the externally forced role reversal and the consciously implemented role reversal models.
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angol
Típus:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Formátum:
application/pdf
Azonosító:
10.17356/ieejsp.v2i3.170
Forrás:
Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics; Vol 2, No 3 (2016): Work-life Balance/Imbalance: Individual, Organizational and Social Experiences
2416-089X
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