Purpose This paper aims to examine the experience of women entrepreneurs and the challenges and issues they face in reconciling the work activities of the family sphere with those of the entrepreneurial sphere. Design/methodology/approach This study is based on a materialist feminist perspective and a theory of living work that take into account the visible and invisible dimensions of the real work performed by women entrepreneurs. The methodology is based on a qualitative research design involving individual and group interviews conducted with 70 women entrepreneurs. Findings The results show the various individual and collective strategies deployed by women entrepreneurs to reconcile the work activities of the family and entrepreneurial spheres. Originality/value One of the major findings emerging from the results of this study relates to the re-appropriation of the world of work and organization of work by women entrepreneurs and its emancipatory potential for the division of labour. Through the authority and autonomy they possessed as business owners, and with their employees’ cooperation, they integrated and internalized tasks related to the work activities of the family sphere into the organization of work itself. Thus, not only new forms of work organization and cooperation at work but also new ways of conceiving of entrepreneurship as serving women’s life choices and emancipation could be seen to be emerging.

The present article proposes to broaden the understanding of the life courses of women executives to include an experiential perspective of meaning built around their different life projects. Our study is based on a qualitative approach employing narrative research methodology to analyze interviews with a sample of 51 women executives. Our findings reveal key experiences and events and a diversity of transitions between hierarchical levels that characterize their career development. They also show a number of possible configurations of rapprochement, integration, distancing, or separation between the different spheres of life and their influence on executive careers through ascending, lateral, or descending career paths. These findings contribute to a deeper insight into the complex career paths of women executives and underscore the value of including these different dimensions when considering guidance support strategies for this clientele.

Cette étude propose de cerner et d’analyser les évènements et les expériences qui caractérisent le parcours scolaire et les parcours d’insertion socioprofessionnelle des femmes cadres à la lumière des apports de la sociologie des rapports sociaux de sexe. L’étude s’appuie sur une méthodologie qualitative à l’aide d’entrevues individuelles réalisées auprès de 51 femmes cadres. Les résultats révèlent la présence des rapports sociaux de sexe dès le parcours scolaire et les stratégies mobilisées face à ces expériences. Ils contribuent à renouveler la prise en compte des dimensions des rapports sociaux de sexe pour penser les interventions en counseling et en orientation.

The gabbroic crust of the Ordovician Bay of Islands ophiolite complex formed in an island-arc setting near the North American continental margin. Detailed structural studies on the North Arm Mountain massif provide us with a scheme of syn-oceanic deformation events recorded in the crust. During a first transtensional stage, which generated gabbroic rocks, sheeted dykes and lavas, the temperature of formation of amphiboles in the gabbroic unit fell with time in three steps from 880-745 ~ to 790-680 ~ and to 550-500 ~ The Ti, Na and A1 rv contents of amphiboles decreased, whereas the Si activity of the fluid increased with time. The first amphibole to form has typical mid-ocean ridge basalt dlSOvsMow indicating equilibration with a magmatic fluid or evolved seawater at low fluid/rock ratio. Lower 6180 values for some amphiboles (0-2.5%0) indicate the circulation of large volumes of seawater. The lowest 6180 values are found in the inner part of the shear zones, which channelled deep infiltration of seawater into the gabbroic unit. During brittle deformation, infiltration of lowtemperature seawater produced pretmite, carbonate and quartz veins, and plagioclase with high 6180. This study documents that the hydration of ophiolitic crust in the Bay of Islands ophiolitic complex occurred mainly along pre-obduction oceanic structures in an intraoceanic setting.Most oceanic and ophiolite gabbros experienced syn-oceanic hydrothermal alteration and metamorphism. According to spreading rates distinct processes occur and display their own metamorphic characteristics. Evidence from both oceanic and ophiolitic rocks provides insight regarding these particular problems. For modern oceanic slow-spreading ridges, M~vel & Can_nat (1991) have proposed a model for high-temperature seawater penetration distinct from the cracking front model (Lister 1974) in which thermal contraction enhances cracks and allows seawater penetration. Thermal contraction occurs at temperature below 500 ~ According to the model of Mfvel & Cannat (1991), early shearing starts at high temperatures, between 800 and 900 ~ at low water/ rock ratios, and produces granular textures with neoblast compositions similar to magmatic phases. With continued shearing, external fluid penetration increases as temperature falls and enhances am-

Purpose This paper aims to examine the work experiences of female executives and the challenges of their visible and invisible work activities, considering the operating modes they develop to carry out their work activities. Design/methodology/approach This study relies on a materialist feminist perspective and a critical experientialist work theory, which considers both the visible and invisible dimensions of the work performed by female executives. The methodology is based on a qualitative research design involving individual and group interviews with 51 Canadian female executives. Findings The results reveal the hyper-efficiency operating mode mobilized by female executives, which combines strategies to take over and delegate work activities from the domestic sphere to reconcile the managerial work with their different life spheres. Originality/value A key finding emerging from these results relates to the invisible but omnipresent part of the work activities from the domestic sphere throughout the lives of female executives.