From Professionals to Professional Mothers. How College-educated Married Mothers Experience Unemployment in the US.

Autor/in	Rao, Aliya Hamid
Titel	From Professionals to Professional Mothers. How College-educated Married Mothers Experience Unemployment in the US. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Von Professionellen zu professionellen Müttern. Wie verheiratete Mütter mit Hochschulabschluss in den USA Arbeitslosigkeit erleben.
Quelle	In: Work, employment & society, 34 (2020) 2, S. 299-316 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1469-8722
DOI	10.1177/0950017019887334
Schlagwörter	Soziale Identität; Wahrnehmung; Ehefrau; Mutter; Arbeitslose Frau; Arbeitslosigkeit; Auswirkung; Hochschulabsolvent; USA
Abstract	Unemployment influences life experiences and outcomes, but how it does so may be shaped by gender and parenthood. Because research on unemployment focuses on men's experiences of unemployment, it presents as universal a process that may be gendered. This article asks: how do college-educated, heterosexual, married mothers experience involuntary unemployment? Drawing on in-depth interviews with unemployed mothers in the US, their husbands, and follow-up interviews, this article finds that the experience of job loss is tempered for mothers as they derive a culturally valued identity from motherhood which also anchors their lives. Husbands' support emphasises that employment is one of several options mothers can pursue. Couples pivot attention to husbands' careers as they worry about finances, often resulting in marital tensions. Using mothers' unemployment as a case, this study demonstrates that unemployment has more divergent implications depending on gender and parenthood than prior theories suggest. (Author's Abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2020/3