Jennifer Tomlinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3580920 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Tomlinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Tomlinson |
| SIGNATURE | TOMLINSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1863-885X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 160 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Challenging the “Ideal Worker” Norm? Senior Managers Navigating Reduced Hours Working
Reduced hours working at senior management levels remains rare and little is known about how it can be utilized effectively in organizations. This article focuses upon two forms of reduced hours working among a sample of 42 senior executives and managers: reduced hours and job share partnerships. In contrast to earlier research, this study found greater optimism among senior managers who worked reduced hours regarding their career prospects but a…
Gender and Ethnic Intersectionality in Solicitors' Careers, 1970 to 2016
This article provides new insights into the intersection of gender and ethnic inequalities in the solicitors' profession. Using administrative records spanning the entire population of practising solicitors in England and Wales, we analyse structural changes over successive cohorts of solicitors and identify four distinctive employment profiles: high-street solicitors, city solicitors, corporate fast-track and in-house. We show how solicitors wit…
Old norms in the new normal: Exploring and resisting the rise of the ideal pandemic worker
There is also no conflict of interest associated with this paper and my co-authors and I are the only authors of this manuscript. I declare that this manuscript is original and that it has not been published before or is under review elsewhere
Rethinking the Domestic Division of Labour: Exploring Change and Continuity in the Context of Redundancy
This article explores changes to the domestic division of labour and how these are negotiated, following both female and male redundancy among heterosexual dual-earning couples in the north of England. Using a qualitative, longitudinal research design, we engage with and extend relative resource bargaining theory to consider its different manifestations in the negotiation process, in relation to 'silent bargaining' and collaborative decision maki…
Privileges and penalties in the legal profession: An Intersectional Analysis of Career Progression
Intersectionality theory is concerned with integrating social characteristics to better understanding complex human relations and inequalities in organizations and societies (McCall 2005). Recently, intersectionality research has taken a categorical and quantitative turn as scholars critically adopt but retain existing social categories to explain differences in labour market outcomes. A key contention is that social categories carry penalties or…
Flexible careers across the life course: Advancing theory, research and practice
This introductory article sets out a framework for conceptualizing flexible careers. We focus on the conditions, including the institutional arrangements and the organizational policies and practices, that can support individuals to construct flexible and sustainable careers across the life course. We ask: What are flexible careers? Who are the (multiple) actors determining flexible careers? How do institutions and organizational settings impact …
Exploring the work-life challenges and dilemmas faced by managers and professionals who live alone
This article aims to question the dominant understanding of work-life balance or conflict as primarily a 'work-family' issue. It does this by exploring the experiences of managers and professionals who live alone and do not have children - a group of employees traditionally overlooked in work-life policy and research but, significantly, a group on the rise within the working age population. Semi-structured interviews with 36 solo-living managers …
Female Part‐Time Managers: Careers, Mentors and Role Models
This paper explores the careers of 27 women employed as part‐time managers in a range of UK public, private and not‐for‐profit sector organizations. Drawing upon semi‐structured interviews, the article briefly summarizes the career trajectories of these women, prior to and after a transition to part‐time working, before exploring whether and how career progression is linked to the support of role models and mentors. The part‐time managers in this…
Structure, agency and career strategies of white women and black and minority ethnic individuals in the legal profession
The legal profession in England and Wales is becoming more diverse. However, while white women and black and minority ethnic (BME) individuals now enter the profession in larger numbers, inequalities remain. This article explores the career strategies of 68 white women and BME legal professionals to understand more about their experiences in the profession. Archer’s work on structure and agency informs the analysis, as does Emirbayer and Mische’s…
Reflections on work and employment into the 21st century: Between Equal Rights, Force Decides
In this introductory article, the editors of Work, Employment and Society reflect on the journal's body of published work and present the main contributions of the 25-year anniversary issue. As a journal of record WES is now well established and offers extensive conceptual insights into, and empirical analysis of, contemporary trends and experiences of work, employment and unemployment. Yet academic scholarship should also aspire to comment, crit…
Writing articles for Work, Employment and Society: Different Voices, Same Language
Writing articles for Work, Employment and Society : different voices, same language Foreward
Gender equality and the state: A review of objectives, policies and progress in the European Union
This article aims to map recent developments in the areas of gender equality and gender mainstreaming within the European Union (EU). It begins with coverage of feminist debates in the 1990s on the role of the EU in making progress in the area of gender equality across member states. It then looks at developments in the European employment strategy (EES) and Lisbon Strategy. Following this, the article analyses the extent to which the Open Method…
The more things change… towards 25 years of Work, Employment and Society
Female part‐time managers: Work‐life balance, aspirations and career mobility
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the employment trajectories, aspirations, work‐life balance and career mobility of women working as part‐time managers. Design/methodology/approach In‐depth, semi‐structured interviews were conducted with 16 female part‐time managers and four of their line managers in public and private‐sector organizations. Interviews explored women's career trajectories before and after the transition to part‐time…
Female part-time managers: Networks and Career Mobility
The promotional prospects, career mobility and networking experiences of 16 female part-time managers are explored in this article. It attempts to explain the labour market position of female part-time managers, comparing their employment experiences, career progression and networking while working full and part-time. The majority had successful career histories while full-time but these careers stalled once a transition to part-time work was mad…
Women Returners and Potential Returners: Employment Profiles and Labour Market Opportunities--A Case Study of the United Kingdom
Women who have previously left the labour market to have children or to care for a family member represent a large proportion of the present and potential workforce. This article innovatively links data on women's education with employers’ skill needs and market wage rates to map the different circumstances of women returners in the United Kingdom. We explore whether there is a clustering of women returners in low-wage occupations and how this gr…
Causes and Consequences of the Divergent Working-Time Patterns of Employed Mothers in the UK and the US: Developing a Comparative Analysis
Employment Regimes and the Quality of Work
Female part‐time workers' experiences of occupational mobility in the UK service industry
Purpose This purpose of this paper it to explore the extent to which female part‐time workers experience occupational mobility in UK service sector firms, particularly promotional opportunities, since the implementation of the Part‐time Workers' Directive in 2000. Design/methodology/approach The research adopts a qualitative methodology. In‐depth interviews were carried out with 62 women and 12 of their managers in five case study workplaces in t…
Routes to Part‐Time Management in UK Service Sector Organizations: Implications for Women’s Skills, Flexibility and Progression
This article examines the implications of part‐time working for mothers, particularly with regards to their occupational mobility and acquisition of skills, in UK service sector organizations following the implementation of the Part‐time Workers’ Directive in 2000. Through qualitative interviews with women and their managers in five hospitality workplaces, this article explores whether part‐time workers are potentially the ‘losers’ in the ‘winner…
Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling – Linda Wirth
Part-Time Occupational Mobility in the Service Industries: Regulation, Work Commitment and Occupational Closure
Whether stereotypical perceptions of part-time workers' commitment to work are accurate is a matter of contention. Commentators such as Hakim (1996) suggest that full- and part-time workers have qualitatively different orientations to work, while others (Fagan 2001) argue that, as most women work full- and part-time over the life course, such a view is overly static. This paper investigates firms' structuring of part-time work, focusing specifica…
Perceptions and negotiations of the “business case” for flexible careers and the integration of part‐time work
Looks at the extent to which employers recognise and act on "business case" incentives for implementing working‐time flexibility for those wishing to develop career paths. Focuses, in particular, on women's flexibility following maternity and their ability to access part‐time management positions through accommodating a reduction in working hours, or the integration and promotion of women working part‐time to managerial status. The research was g…
Structure, agency and career strategies of white women and black and minority ethnic individuals in the legal profession
The legal profession in England and Wales is becoming more diverse. However, while white women and black and minority ethnic (BME) individuals now enter the profession in larger numbers, inequalities remain. This article explores the career strategies of 68 white women and BME legal professionals to understand more about their experiences in the profession. Archer’s work on structure and agency informs the analysis, as does Emirbayer and Mische’s…
Flexible careers across the life course: Advancing theory, research and practice
This introductory article sets out a framework for conceptualizing flexible careers. We focus on the conditions, including the institutional arrangements and the organizational policies and practices, that can support individuals to construct flexible and sustainable careers across the life course. We ask: What are flexible careers? Who are the (multiple) actors determining flexible careers? How do institutions and organizational settings impact …
Exploring the work-life challenges and dilemmas faced by managers and professionals who live alone
This article aims to question the dominant understanding of work-life balance or conflict as primarily a 'work-family' issue. It does this by exploring the experiences of managers and professionals who live alone and do not have children - a group of employees traditionally overlooked in work-life policy and research but, significantly, a group on the rise within the working age population. Semi-structured interviews with 36 solo-living managers …
Female part-time managers: Networks and Career Mobility
The promotional prospects, career mobility and networking experiences of 16 female part-time managers are explored in this article. It attempts to explain the labour market position of female part-time managers, comparing their employment experiences, career progression and networking while working full and part-time. The majority had successful career histories while full-time but these careers stalled once a transition to part-time work was mad…
Privileges and penalties in the legal profession: An Intersectional Analysis of Career Progression
Intersectionality theory is concerned with integrating social characteristics to better understanding complex human relations and inequalities in organizations and societies (McCall 2005). Recently, intersectionality research has taken a categorical and quantitative turn as scholars critically adopt but retain existing social categories to explain differences in labour market outcomes. A key contention is that social categories carry penalties or…
Part-Time Occupational Mobility in the Service Industries: Regulation, Work Commitment and Occupational Closure
Whether stereotypical perceptions of part-time workers' commitment to work are accurate is a matter of contention. Commentators such as Hakim (1996) suggest that full- and part-time workers have qualitatively different orientations to work, while others (Fagan 2001) argue that, as most women work full- and part-time over the life course, such a view is overly static. This paper investigates firms' structuring of part-time work, focusing specifica…
Female Part‐Time Managers: Careers, Mentors and Role Models
This paper explores the careers of 27 women employed as part‐time managers in a range of UK public, private and not‐for‐profit sector organizations. Drawing upon semi‐structured interviews, the article briefly summarizes the career trajectories of these women, prior to and after a transition to part‐time working, before exploring whether and how career progression is linked to the support of role models and mentors. The part‐time managers in this…
Women Returners and Potential Returners: Employment Profiles and Labour Market Opportunities--A Case Study of the United Kingdom
Women who have previously left the labour market to have children or to care for a family member represent a large proportion of the present and potential workforce. This article innovatively links data on women's education with employers’ skill needs and market wage rates to map the different circumstances of women returners in the United Kingdom. We explore whether there is a clustering of women returners in low-wage occupations and how this gr…
Rethinking the Domestic Division of Labour: Exploring Change and Continuity in the Context of Redundancy
This article explores changes to the domestic division of labour and how these are negotiated, following both female and male redundancy among heterosexual dual-earning couples in the north of England. Using a qualitative, longitudinal research design, we engage with and extend relative resource bargaining theory to consider its different manifestations in the negotiation process, in relation to 'silent bargaining' and collaborative decision maki…
Reflections on work and employment into the 21st century: Between Equal Rights, Force Decides
In this introductory article, the editors of Work, Employment and Society reflect on the journal's body of published work and present the main contributions of the 25-year anniversary issue. As a journal of record WES is now well established and offers extensive conceptual insights into, and empirical analysis of, contemporary trends and experiences of work, employment and unemployment. Yet academic scholarship should also aspire to comment, crit…
Routes to Part‐Time Management in UK Service Sector Organizations: Implications for Women’s Skills, Flexibility and Progression
This article examines the implications of part‐time working for mothers, particularly with regards to their occupational mobility and acquisition of skills, in UK service sector organizations following the implementation of the Part‐time Workers’ Directive in 2000. Through qualitative interviews with women and their managers in five hospitality workplaces, this article explores whether part‐time workers are potentially the ‘losers’ in the ‘winner…
Female part‐time managers: Work‐life balance, aspirations and career mobility
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the employment trajectories, aspirations, work‐life balance and career mobility of women working as part‐time managers. Design/methodology/approach In‐depth, semi‐structured interviews were conducted with 16 female part‐time managers and four of their line managers in public and private‐sector organizations. Interviews explored women's career trajectories before and after the transition to part‐time…
Writing articles for Work, Employment and Society: Different Voices, Same Language
Writing articles for Work, Employment and Society : different voices, same language Foreward
Gender and Ethnic Intersectionality in Solicitors' Careers, 1970 to 2016
This article provides new insights into the intersection of gender and ethnic inequalities in the solicitors' profession. Using administrative records spanning the entire population of practising solicitors in England and Wales, we analyse structural changes over successive cohorts of solicitors and identify four distinctive employment profiles: high-street solicitors, city solicitors, corporate fast-track and in-house. We show how solicitors wit…
Old norms in the new normal: Exploring and resisting the rise of the ideal pandemic worker
There is also no conflict of interest associated with this paper and my co-authors and I are the only authors of this manuscript. I declare that this manuscript is original and that it has not been published before or is under review elsewhere
Perceptions and negotiations of the “business case” for flexible careers and the integration of part‐time work
Looks at the extent to which employers recognise and act on "business case" incentives for implementing working‐time flexibility for those wishing to develop career paths. Focuses, in particular, on women's flexibility following maternity and their ability to access part‐time management positions through accommodating a reduction in working hours, or the integration and promotion of women working part‐time to managerial status. The research was g…
Routes to Part‐Time Management in UK Service Sector Organizations: Implications for Women’s Skills, Flexibility and Progression
This article examines the implications of part‐time working for mothers, particularly with regards to their occupational mobility and acquisition of skills, in UK service sector organizations following the implementation of the Part‐time Workers’ Directive in 2000. Through qualitative interviews with women and their managers in five hospitality workplaces, this article explores whether part‐time workers are potentially the ‘losers’ in the ‘winner…
Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling – Linda Wirth
Part-Time Occupational Mobility in the Service Industries: Regulation, Work Commitment and Occupational Closure
Whether stereotypical perceptions of part-time workers' commitment to work are accurate is a matter of contention. Commentators such as Hakim (1996) suggest that full- and part-time workers have qualitatively different orientations to work, while others (Fagan 2001) argue that, as most women work full- and part-time over the life course, such a view is overly static. This paper investigates firms' structuring of part-time work, focusing specifica…
Female part‐time workers' experiences of occupational mobility in the UK service industry
Purpose This purpose of this paper it to explore the extent to which female part‐time workers experience occupational mobility in UK service sector firms, particularly promotional opportunities, since the implementation of the Part‐time Workers' Directive in 2000. Design/methodology/approach The research adopts a qualitative methodology. In‐depth interviews were carried out with 62 women and 12 of their managers in five case study workplaces in t…
Causes and Consequences of the Divergent Working-Time Patterns of Employed Mothers in the UK and the US: Developing a Comparative Analysis
Employment Regimes and the Quality of Work
Women Returners and Potential Returners: Employment Profiles and Labour Market Opportunities--A Case Study of the United Kingdom
Women who have previously left the labour market to have children or to care for a family member represent a large proportion of the present and potential workforce. This article innovatively links data on women's education with employers’ skill needs and market wage rates to map the different circumstances of women returners in the United Kingdom. We explore whether there is a clustering of women returners in low-wage occupations and how this gr…
Female part‐time managers: Work‐life balance, aspirations and career mobility
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the employment trajectories, aspirations, work‐life balance and career mobility of women working as part‐time managers. Design/methodology/approach In‐depth, semi‐structured interviews were conducted with 16 female part‐time managers and four of their line managers in public and private‐sector organizations. Interviews explored women's career trajectories before and after the transition to part‐time…
Female part-time managers: Networks and Career Mobility
The promotional prospects, career mobility and networking experiences of 16 female part-time managers are explored in this article. It attempts to explain the labour market position of female part-time managers, comparing their employment experiences, career progression and networking while working full and part-time. The majority had successful career histories while full-time but these careers stalled once a transition to part-time work was mad…
Gender equality and the state: A review of objectives, policies and progress in the European Union
This article aims to map recent developments in the areas of gender equality and gender mainstreaming within the European Union (EU). It begins with coverage of feminist debates in the 1990s on the role of the EU in making progress in the area of gender equality across member states. It then looks at developments in the European employment strategy (EES) and Lisbon Strategy. Following this, the article analyses the extent to which the Open Method…
The more things change… towards 25 years of Work, Employment and Society
Writing articles for Work, Employment and Society: Different Voices, Same Language
Writing articles for Work, Employment and Society : different voices, same language Foreward
Structure, agency and career strategies of white women and black and minority ethnic individuals in the legal profession
The legal profession in England and Wales is becoming more diverse. However, while white women and black and minority ethnic (BME) individuals now enter the profession in larger numbers, inequalities remain. This article explores the career strategies of 68 white women and BME legal professionals to understand more about their experiences in the profession. Archer’s work on structure and agency informs the analysis, as does Emirbayer and Mische’s…
Reflections on work and employment into the 21st century: Between Equal Rights, Force Decides
In this introductory article, the editors of Work, Employment and Society reflect on the journal's body of published work and present the main contributions of the 25-year anniversary issue. As a journal of record WES is now well established and offers extensive conceptual insights into, and empirical analysis of, contemporary trends and experiences of work, employment and unemployment. Yet academic scholarship should also aspire to comment, crit…
Female Part‐Time Managers: Careers, Mentors and Role Models
This paper explores the careers of 27 women employed as part‐time managers in a range of UK public, private and not‐for‐profit sector organizations. Drawing upon semi‐structured interviews, the article briefly summarizes the career trajectories of these women, prior to and after a transition to part‐time working, before exploring whether and how career progression is linked to the support of role models and mentors. The part‐time managers in this…
Exploring the work-life challenges and dilemmas faced by managers and professionals who live alone
This article aims to question the dominant understanding of work-life balance or conflict as primarily a 'work-family' issue. It does this by exploring the experiences of managers and professionals who live alone and do not have children - a group of employees traditionally overlooked in work-life policy and research but, significantly, a group on the rise within the working age population. Semi-structured interviews with 36 solo-living managers …
Flexible careers across the life course: Advancing theory, research and practice
This introductory article sets out a framework for conceptualizing flexible careers. We focus on the conditions, including the institutional arrangements and the organizational policies and practices, that can support individuals to construct flexible and sustainable careers across the life course. We ask: What are flexible careers? Who are the (multiple) actors determining flexible careers? How do institutions and organizational settings impact …
Privileges and penalties in the legal profession: An Intersectional Analysis of Career Progression
Intersectionality theory is concerned with integrating social characteristics to better understanding complex human relations and inequalities in organizations and societies (McCall 2005). Recently, intersectionality research has taken a categorical and quantitative turn as scholars critically adopt but retain existing social categories to explain differences in labour market outcomes. A key contention is that social categories carry penalties or…
Rethinking the Domestic Division of Labour: Exploring Change and Continuity in the Context of Redundancy
This article explores changes to the domestic division of labour and how these are negotiated, following both female and male redundancy among heterosexual dual-earning couples in the north of England. Using a qualitative, longitudinal research design, we engage with and extend relative resource bargaining theory to consider its different manifestations in the negotiation process, in relation to 'silent bargaining' and collaborative decision maki…
Old norms in the new normal: Exploring and resisting the rise of the ideal pandemic worker
There is also no conflict of interest associated with this paper and my co-authors and I are the only authors of this manuscript. I declare that this manuscript is original and that it has not been published before or is under review elsewhere
Gender and Ethnic Intersectionality in Solicitors' Careers, 1970 to 2016
This article provides new insights into the intersection of gender and ethnic inequalities in the solicitors' profession. Using administrative records spanning the entire population of practising solicitors in England and Wales, we analyse structural changes over successive cohorts of solicitors and identify four distinctive employment profiles: high-street solicitors, city solicitors, corporate fast-track and in-house. We show how solicitors wit…
Challenging the “Ideal Worker” Norm? Senior Managers Navigating Reduced Hours Working
Reduced hours working at senior management levels remains rare and little is known about how it can be utilized effectively in organizations. This article focuses upon two forms of reduced hours working among a sample of 42 senior executives and managers: reduced hours and job share partnerships. In contrast to earlier research, this study found greater optimism among senior managers who worked reduced hours regarding their career prospects but a…
Political science (19 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Engineering (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (10 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (10 works) · Public relations (10 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (10 works)