United by Gender or Divided by Class? Women's Work Orientations and Labour Market Behaviour
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12310941 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura James (0000-0001-8226-7945, University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 394-412 |
| Publication date | 2007-09-18 |
| 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/j.1468-0432.2007.00367.x |
| OpenAlex | W2071699341 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 29 |
Recent debates on the relationship between women's work orientations and their labour market behaviour have been marked by a polarization between those who emphasize personal choice and those who argue that constraint is equally, if not more, important. However, in both approaches ‘orientation’ is understood primarily as a choice between prioritizing paid work or family (understood almost exclusively in terms of childcare responsibilities) for all women regardless of socioeconomic class. Drawing on in‐depth qualitative interview data, this article outlines some of the similarities and differences in the work orientations of women in professional/managerial, intermediate and routine/manual socioeconomic classes in Oxford. It develops the concept of ‘work orientation’ to include the meaning of paid work as well as labour market behaviour for women with and without children. The data presented here suggest that there are important class‐based differences in women's attitudes and that apparently similar work orientations may have very different causes and labour market consequences
Class (philosophy · Constraint (computer-aided design · Demographic economics · Economics · Epistemology · Labour economics · Meaning (existential · Paid work · Political science · Positive economics · Social class · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Work (physics · Demography · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges
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| Unique citing works | 16 |
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| Citations per year | 0,94 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2024 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |