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Career Woman, Mother, Wife or Daughter: Untangling the Web and Finding a Balance

In: Black Women in Management

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  • Diane Chilangwa Farmer

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Over the past four decades, feminist and other related research and studies of women’s employment have established the fact that work within the family and employment cannot be fully understood in isolation from each other (Bradley and Healy, 2008; Burke, 2001; Burke and Davidson, 2004; Cooper and Davidson, 1984). Professional women’s domestic regime (Walby, 1997) and commitments to caring responsibilities remain deeply intertwined with their paid work commitments, resulting in women and men entering the labour market on different terms (Bradley and Healy, 2008). In the case of Black African women, while a growing number of women across the continent continue to gain higher educational qualifications and acquire professional jobs alongside men in the formal sector, they also continue to have a complex relationship between work and family life (Nkomo and Ngambi, 2009). Furthermore, studies of the lives of women who do qualify and embark on their respective career paths fail to acknowledge the challenges and limitations placed upon their mobility primarily by their unique cultural histories and defined gender roles (Littrell and Nkomo, 2005:563).

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  • Diane Chilangwa Farmer, 2013. "Career Woman, Mother, Wife or Daughter: Untangling the Web and Finding a Balance," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Black Women in Management, chapter 7, pages 139-160, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-33543-2_7
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137335432_7
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