Work Role-Motherhood Role Constructions and Conflicts in Workplace Interactions
Published: 2018
Author(s) Name: Mridul Maheshwari and Jerome Joseph |
Author(s) Affiliation: Assistant Professor, IIM Kashipur, Kundeshwari, Uttarakhand.
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Abstract
Professional working women face
workplace conflicts out of the combined
effect of social expectations,
pressures and career role aspirations.
This study focuses on a particular
stage in women’s career continuity
– entry into motherhood roles
in their early careers which creates
attendant dilemmas and anxieties
due to organizational-managerial
dispositions and biases. A grounded
qualitative research approach was
adopted and in-depth conversational,
unstructured interviews were
conducted with eight professional
women subjects holding managerial
positions using the snowball technique.
The subjects and the geographies
have been held anonymous
to protect sources. Five frames representing
the work role-motherhood
role dynamics at the workplace
emerged from the study which can
become the basis for sensitizing organizations
on this issue.
Keywords: N.A.
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