Role salience of dual-career women managers

Abstract

This study examines and contrasts the level of role participation, commitment and value expectation that dual career women invest in contending work and family roles. While the 162 married women managers were found to participate significantly more in the work role, they indicated greater commitment to and value expectation from the home and family role. A significant positive correlation between the commitment to the work role and commitment to the home and family role suggests that dual-career women may experience work and home as complimentary rather than conflicting roles. For dual-career women, work salience and career salience were found to be moderately correlated. Opsomming In hierdie studie word die vlakke van rol-deelname, rol-toegewydheid en rol-waardeverwagting wat dubbelloopbaan vroue onderskeidelik in die werk-en familierol investeer, gekonstrasteer. Terwyl dit geblyk het dat 162 getroude vroulike bestuurders beduidend meer deelneem in die werkrol, het hulle hoër toegewydheid en waardeverwagtings teenoor die huis-en-familie rol getoon. ‘n Beduidende positiewe korrelasie is gevind tussen toegewydheid tot die werksrol en toegewydheid tot die huis-en-familierol. Hierdie bevinding suggereer dat dubbelloopbaan vroue hulle werk en familie-rolle as komplimenterend eerder as konflikterend ervaar. Dit het verder geblyk dat werkrolbelangrikheid en loopbaanbelangrikheid matig gekorreleer is.

Exploring the social construction of life roles of career-oriented women

“…They believed that they need to cut down the time they spend at work in order to increase the time they can spend with their children. This confirms the findings of a South African study conducted by Naidoo and Jano (2002), namely that even though dual-career women participate more in the work role, they have greater commitment to the home and family role than to the work role. Similarly, this finding confirms those of Cinamon and Rich (2002).…”

“…According to Naidoo and Jano (2002), this work and home interface creates much conflict for the dual-career woman because of the different role expectations and demands on her time. Dualcareer women do not have time to perform the tasks of the different roles incumbent on them resulting in a compromise of some degree in one or more roles (Naidoo & Jano, 2002). This in turn, tends to have an impact on either their work or family life.…”

“…While some work has been done in the field of multiple role conflict, especially into how women in managerial positions integrate their multiple roles (e.g. Naidoo & Jano, 2002) in South Africa, more in-depth qualitative work involving women themselves, who are currently career-focused and engaged in full time work, are needed so that first hand data as to how they experience and attach meaning to their different life roles and manage them in their everyday life situation can be obtained. Such an "insider" perspective into the lives of these women could not only assist themselves to manage and integrate their various life roles successfully and to reap the benefits associated with occupying different roles, but such data if carefully and scientifically collected would also contribute in our knowledge in this area by establishing building blocks.…”

The profile of occupational stress in a sample of health profession academics at a historically disadvantaged university in South Africa

“…Female academics experienced more pressure trying to actualize themselves in their work place while continuing to carry the major responsibility at home and in the family. This pattern resonated with the literature reporting that female academics accommodate the demands of their career through outside assistance for household responsibilities (Naidoo and Jano 2002). Family and personal obligations coupled with greater responsibilities for work related duties mean that women have to negotiate maternal or parental responsibilities with stringent academic demands (Higgins, Duxbury and Lyons 2010).…”

Work-Life Events Theory: Making Sense of Shock Events in Dual-Earner Couples

“…This is important in that differential significance shapes individuals' experience of and response to a shock event. Further, prior research on role salience among dual-earner couples has focused primarily on career salience and family salience (Bhowon, 2013;Hardesty & Betz, 1980;Naidoo & Jano, 2002;Rajadhyaksha & Bhatnagar, 2000). Given the varied roles individuals in a dualearner couple enact (Blair, 1998;Ugwu, 2009), using a comprehensive approach that incorporates all of those roles and acknowledges that they exist and function in relative importance to one another is critical for achieving a more complete picture of how these couples' work-life arrangements may be shaken and affected by a shock event.…”