Struggling with Maternity Leave Policies and Practices: A Poststructuralist Feminist Analysis of Gendered Organizing

Buzzanell, Patrice M.; Liu, Meina

doi:10.1080/0090988042000318495

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“…For instance, Kirby and Krone (2002) examined work-life policy, finding that co-worker interactions were more influential in how participants understood and used policy than top-down directives or actual policy texts. Additionally, Buzzanell and Liu (2005) noted that women in their study interpreted maternity leave policies as non-negotiable rules and therefore rarely requested additional time to stay home. Such practices constructed a type of ''common knowledge'' about policies that did not necessarily reflect the spirit or the letter of the policy involved.…”

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Constructing Policy Knowledge: Contradictions, Communication, and Knowledge Frames

Canary¹

2010

Communication Monographs

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Section: Policy Knowledgementioning

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Constructing Policy Knowledge: Contradictions, Communication, and Knowledge Frames

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2010

Communication Monographs

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“…238 & 239). Our poststructuralist narratological critique encouraged us to explicate shifting subject positions, ambivalences, contradictory and surprising emplotments, missing or forgotten voices, exigencies, everyday struggles, and the very nature of grand narratives themselves (e.g., Ashcraft, 2014;Bloom, 1996;Buzzanell & Liu, 2005;Mezei, 1996;Smith & Dougherty, 2012;Trethewey, 2001;Weedon, 1997). Although we did not ask about the master narrative of mentoring, we noted that their responses offered contrasts between what they and others commonly expected from mentoring in academe.…”

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Mentoring in Academe

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Management Communication Quarterly

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We analyzed the mentoring narratives of women of color in faculty in engineering using feminist poststructural narratological lenses. We found that university mentoring systems were designed to align with master narratives of mentoring but did not coincide with women faculty's own mentoring stories. Specifically, women engineers regarded their mentee experiences and cultures of mentoring with varying levels of suspicion, ambiguity, vulnerability, and dis/enchantment that became embodied in alternative subject positions, emplotments, and agency. We contribute to greater understandings of mentoring processes as well as difference and inclusion in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) academic workplaces.

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“…For professional and managerial women, the birth of a first child is often followed by a struggle to maintain a sense of self as professional while striving to be a "good mother" (P. M. Buzzanell & Liu, 2005;Frenkel, 2008;Millward, 2006). For example, Buzzanell and Liu (2005) interviewed 15 women of varying occupational status about their experiences with workplace pregnancy and returning to work post-maternity leave.…”

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“…For example, Buzzanell and Liu (2005) interviewed 15 women of varying occupational status about their experiences with workplace pregnancy and returning to work post-maternity leave. These researchers discovered a clear identity struggle in their informant's discourse regarding their attempts to construct productive identities while pregnant at work and upon return from maternity leave.…”

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Identity in Transition: Women’s Narrative Identity Work on the Path to Professional and Mother

Bataille

2014

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Although numerous scholars claim that identity is an integral aspect of engaging in work and family, the extant literature falls short of explaining how women's identities evolve over time through the significant transitions involved in pursuing professional careers and raising families. In fact, much of the literature is grounded in the assumption that work and family represent competing identities for women. Missing from this body of literature is a conceptualization of pursuing a professional/managerial career and having a family as a complex set of transitions that provoke the questions, "Who am I?" and "Who/what do I want to be?" Through a narrative study of 35 professional/managerial women, I uncover novel forms of narrative identity work that illuminate how women construct, revise and present their identities as they transition from university students to young professionals, from non-mothers to mothers, and from childless employees to those with childcare responsibilities. Further, I posit that these forms of narrative identity work reflect three higher-order identity processes: identity exploration, identity adaptation, and identity expression. Through a within and between-case examination of the configurations of identity processes across the three transitions, I uncover four dominant patterns that provide novel insights into how women's identities evolve over time on the path to professional and mother.ii

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Struggling with Maternity Leave Policies and Practices: A Poststructuralist Feminist Analysis of Gendered Organizing

Cited by 80 publications

References 46 publications

Constructing Policy Knowledge: Contradictions, Communication, and Knowledge Frames

Constructing Policy Knowledge: Contradictions, Communication, and Knowledge Frames

Mentoring in Academe

Identity in Transition: Women’s Narrative Identity Work on the Path to Professional and Mother

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