Women academics and work-life balance. Gendered discourses of work and care.

Autor/inn/en	Toffoletti, Kim; Starr, Karen
Titel	Women academics and work-life balance. Gendered discourses of work and care. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Work-Life-Balance von Akademikerinnen. Geschlechtsspezifische Diskurse über Beruf und Familie.
Quelle	In: Gender, work & organization, 23 (2016) 5, S. 489-504 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0968-6673; 1468-0432
DOI	10.1111/gwao.12133
Schlagwörter	Soziokultureller Faktor; Rollenverständnis; Soziale Norm; Familie; Frau; Geschlechterrolle; Leben; Gleichgewicht; Erwerbstätigkeit; Arbeit; Beruf; Hochschullehrer; Akademiker; Diskurs; Geschlechtsspezifik; Australien
Abstract	"This article examines how discourses of work - life balance are appropriated and used by women academics. Using data collected from semi-structured, single person interviews with 31 scholars at an Australian university, it identifies and explores four ways in which participants construct their relationship to work - life balance as: (1) a personal management task; (2) an impossible ideal; (3) detrimental to their careers; and (4) unmentionable at work. Findings reveal that female academics' ways of speaking about work - life balance respond to gendered attitudes about paid work and unpaid care that predominate in Australian socio-cultural life. By taking a discursive approach to analysing work - life balance, our research makes a unique contribution to the literature by drawing attention to the power of work - life balance discourses in shaping how women configure their attempts to create a work - life balance, and how it functions to position academic women as failing to manage this balance." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2017/1