Maternal presenteeism
Theorizing the importance for working mothers of “being there” for their children beyond infancy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12310266 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alison Edgley (0000-0001-8268-7130, School of Health Sciences The University of Nottingham Nottingham UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1023-1039 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Gender Work and Organization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0968-6673 • E-ISSN: 1468-0432 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/gwao.12619 |
| OpenAlex | W3124851580 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
| References cited | 34 |
This study theorizes why full‐time working women with partners and school‐age children deploy talk of maximal irreplaceable maternal care. The concept of maternal presenteeism frames women's personal beliefs, perceptions, and ambitions as subject to normative pressures associated with intensive mothering and a postfeminist sensibility. The accounts of 20 women who combine motherhood of school‐age children with full‐time professional work are analyzed using thematic analysis. The findings show that even women in demanding careers with partners talk about seeking to be maximally visible to their children and construct forms of workplace flexibility as a matter of luck. By contrast, maternal irreplaceability was viewed as a matter of fate. Examples of resistance to maternal presenteeism served to highlight these normative assumptions and a conflation of ideologies within the accounts of some working mothers. Vestiges of “intensive mothering,” performative notions of “presenteeism” drawn from regimes of work, and a postfeminist sensibility can be identified in the intersubjective experience of some working mothers. A postfeminist sensibility explains why social practices consistent with forms of “intensive mothering” may persist beyond infant years, and yet get recast as choice
Absenteeism · Construct (python library · Developmental psychology · Normative · Presenteeism · Sensibility · Emotional Labor in Professions · Employment and Welfare Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges
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Misrecognition and labor market inclusion of refugee mothers
An ideology of collective‐intensive mothering
Underrepresentation of Women in Universities
Work re‐entry following maternity leave for first‐time mothers
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Not just one woman at a time
Basics of qualitative research
The cultural contradictions of motherhood
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Rethinking the family
Presenteeism in the workplace
Postfeminist media culture
Critical Respect
Postfeminism, Gender and Organization
Antecedents of work–family conflict
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Overwork and the Persistence of Gender Segregation in Occupations
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Stay-at-Home Fathers and Breadwinning Mothers
Normative Discrimination and the Motherhood Penalty
Redesigning, Redefining Work
Lifestyle Preferences as Determinants of Women's Differentiated Labor Market Careers
Gender Differences in Identities and Their Sociostructural Correlates
Being a Mother, Practicing Motherhood, Mothering Someone
Intensive Mothering Beliefs Among Full-Time Employed Mothers of Infants
Being a Good Mom
Parental Time Pressures and Depression Among Married Dual-Earner Parents
Middle-class Mothers' Moralities and 'Concerted Cultivation
| Unique citing works | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5.6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |