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Experiences of Brazilian Women in Light of the ‘Opt Out’ Phenomenon

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: This paper aims to understand the reasons that led women with consolidated careers to interrupt their professional lives due to the work-family conflict. In order to reach the objective, in-depth interviews were carried out with fifteen married professionals, who are mothers, and have higher education some of which are post-graduated.The interviewees' nar-ratives were analyzed using content analysis. The results suggest that such a decision, far from being the expression of free choice, is the result of a set of pressures from the work environ-ment, the dominant social construction of gender, and constraints associated with social origin. Also, although many interviewees resent this decision, their discourse endorses its character of “choice” as they do not recognize the structural constraints that condition it.

Source: Revista Ciências Administrativas

DOI: 10.5020/2318-0722.2024.30.e14710

Authors: Alane de Oliveira Barbosa, Ana Heloisa da Costa Lemos, Filipe Augusto Silveira de Souza

Institutions: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo

Language: English

Topic: Work-Family Balance Challenges

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Gender equality, Decent work and economic growth, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4407394041

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