Lifestyle Preferences and Strategies of Spanish Working Mothers: A Matter of Choice?

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Series Details Vol.22, No.1, March 2017, p81-99
Publication Date March 2017
ISSN 1360-8746
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There is a rich debate surrounding the causes of women’s heterogeneous work–life orientations and strategies.

This article focuses on the debate between postmodern individualistic approaches and gender approaches that emphasise the pervasiveness of socio-structural factors. After offering a profile of Spanish women in the twenty-first century, we present the results of qualitative research based on 30 semi-structured interviews with working mothers from different social backgrounds.

We discuss Hakim’s ‘preference theory’ by exposing how social class shapes Spanish working mothers’ work–life attitudes and behaviour and how these further change over the life cycle or as a result of changing contexts.

Source Link Link to Main Source http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2016.1160528
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