Stratégies professionnelles et organisation des familles

Nicole-Drancourt, Chantal

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“…Women executives can delegate paid childcare and even children's education to the same selected professionals (such as nannies, baby‐sitters, tutors) and sometimes to grandparents. This fragile balance also requires ‘defensive strategies’ (Nicole‐Drancourt, 1989) towards the career of their husband, who must also refuse geographical mobility and sometimes accept lowering his own career aspirations. This strategy seems easier to negotiate in feminine departments and headquarter offices and more difficult in the masculine and technical departments spread all over the French territory.…”

Section: Women' Strategies To Shape Their Career Routesmentioning

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What Would You Sacrifice? Access to Top Management and the Work–life Balance

Guillaume¹,

Pochic²

2008

Gender Work & Organization

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This article is based on a current research, combining quantitative (human resources figures and statistics) and qualitative data (60 interviews with career managers, top managers and high potential talents, both men and women), conducted in a major French utility company on the subject of diversity and more specifically on the issue of women's access to top management positions. The main purpose of this research is to understand the difficulties women may encounter in the course of their occupational career linked to organizational aspects, including the 'glass ceiling' processes, informal norms related to management positions (such as time and mobility constraints) and social and cultural representations attached to leadership. The other perspective of this research focuses on the different strategies women and men build either to conform to the organizational norms or bypass them. The issue of work-life balance are therefore addressed both from a corporate/organizational standpoint and an individual and family perspective.Keywords: managerial career, work-life balance, glass ceiling, women in management, organizationThe formal and informal requirements of organizational careers E ven if a great amount has been written on organizational careers since the 1960s (Dalton, 1959;Glaser, 1968), these studies have rarely focused on the articulation between work and private life, as if it was possible to separate these two spheres of life. Conversely, women's management studies have shown the importance of combining paid and unpaid work in the analysis of women's difficulties in accessing power. Inspired by the American

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Section: Women' Strategies To Shape Their Career Routesmentioning

confidence: 99%

What Would You Sacrifice? Access to Top Management and the Work–life Balance

Guillaume¹,

Pochic²

2008

Gender Work & Organization

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“…In contrast, part-time work for men has remained limited: for example, in 2009, 29.8 per cent of women worked part-time in comparison with only 6 per cent of men. 2 This encouragement of part-time work has been vociferously criticised for its gendered effects, in other words, the increase in the percentage of women working part-time to which it has given rise (Maruani & Decoufle, 1987;Nicole-Drancourt, 1989). Part-time work is viewed as problematic for women for a number of reasons.…”

Section: The Fight Against Unemployment and The Development Of Work -mentioning

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Responses of French Family and Employment Policy to the Unemployment Crises: Impacts on the Gendering of Paid and Unpaid Work

Windebank

2011

Journal of Contemporary European Studies

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This article analyses the evolution of family and employment policies in France and evaluates the extent to which they may have 'stalled' France's gender revolution. It considers the 'universal breadwinner' employment model of women's full-time and continuous participation in the labour market evolving in France in the 1970s and 1980s, due to early state support for childcare, restrictions on part-time working and demand for women's labour in the growing service sector. However, according to some commentators, from the late 1980s onwards the development of this model was curtailed by the unemployment crisis and the attempts of the French state to resolve it both through its employment and family policy. The encouragement of part-time work, the introduction of paid parental leave, the reorientation of childcare services away from collective crèches to individualised forms of care and the subsidies available for hiring a domestic helper are the policies which have provoked most controversy.

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“…Studies on family interaction (Kellerhals, Perrin, Steinauer-Cresson, Vonèche, & Wirth, 1982;Widmer et al, 2003) have clearly shown the complicities between the family division of work arrangements and marital dynamics. In the analysis of female strategies for reconciling family and work, it is essential to look at some aspects of marital dynamics since the different forms of commitment and availability for paid work cannot be dissociated from the logics of interdependence that relativise the independence of the spouses' careers (Nicole-Drancourt, 1989). Marital interdependence goes hand in hand with tensions between the family's collective interests and individual independence, and these tensions are particularly challenging in dual-earner/career couples.…”

Section: Marriage and (In)equality: Theoretical Considerationsmentioning

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Marriage and gender inequality: work–family arrangements of Portuguese and British highly qualified women

Rosa

Lorga

Lyonette

2015

Community, Work & Family

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This article examines work-family reconciliation processes in order to understand if, over the course of marital life, women become socially closer or further away from their partner. Drawing on work-life interviews with highly qualified women in Portugal and Britain, we compare these processes in two societies with different historical and social backgrounds. Findings reveal three main configurations of social (in)equality which emerge during married life: growing inequality in favour of the man, in favour of the woman or equality between spouses. With due attention to the importance of national specific factors, we present three main conclusions. First, (in) equality is built up over the course of marital life and female strategies for reconciling family and work are at the core of this process. Second, the national specificities can mould the effects of cross-national gender mechanisms. Third, the intersection between cross-cultural phenomena such as conservative attitudes towards domestic work and national specificities (such as the availability of part-time options) is a rather complex process which needs further research.Keywords: work-family conflict; gender; class; division of labour; dual-earner couples Cet article examine les processus de l'articulation entre vie familiale et vie professionnelle afin de comprendre si, au cours de la vie conjugale, les conjoints deviennent socialement plus proches ou plus distants. Utilisant des entretiens approfondis avec des femmes ayant un niveau de qualification élevé, au Portugal et en Grande-Bretagne, l'article compare ces processus dans deux sociétés ayant des contextes historiques et sociaux différents. Les résultats révèlent trois configurations principales de l'(in)égalité sociale émergeant pendant la vie conjugale: l'inégalité croissante qui favorise l'homme; l'inégalité qui favorise la femme; et l'égalité entre conjoints. En ce qui concerne l'importance des facteurs spécifiquement nationaux, l'article présente trois grandes conclusions. Premièrement, l'(in)égalité se construit au cours de la vie conjugale, et les stratégies féminines visant à concilier la vie familiale et la vie professionnelle sont au coeur de ce processus. Deuxièmement, les effets transnationaux des mécanismes de genre sont modelés par les spécificités nationales. Troisièmement, l'intersection entre les spécificités nationales (telles que l'option de travailler à temps partiel) et le phénomène transnational (tel que les attitudes face au travail domestique) est un processus complexe qui doit être étudié plus avant.

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Stratégies professionnelles et organisation des familles

Cited by 56 publications

References 2 publications

What Would You Sacrifice? Access to Top Management and the Work–life Balance

What Would You Sacrifice? Access to Top Management and the Work–life Balance

Responses of French Family and Employment Policy to the Unemployment Crises: Impacts on the Gendering of Paid and Unpaid Work

Marriage and gender inequality: work–family arrangements of Portuguese and British highly qualified women

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