Chapter 2: Households, careers and decision-making.
In: Gender, Migration & the Dual Career Household; 2002, p20-36, 17p; (2002-09-05) S. 20-36
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This chapter examines the microsociology of British and North American dual-career households. It applies the neo-Foucauldian concepts of power and negotiation as these are expressed in terms of discursive practices that relate to decision-making about prioritization of careers. This framework emphasizes practices and relations of negotiation, accommodation, contestation, resistance and compromise. Moreover intra-household power relations are also crucial in the understanding of a partners' access to and experience of leisure. Households are seen as dynamic, changing domestic contexts rather than stable, unchanging institutions. To comprehend the circumstances, dynamics and trajectories of dual career households it is necessary to understand how dual career households navigate a course through the complex web within which they are situated. A number of common factors can be identified in decision-making processes among the surveyed households. When it comes to important, infrequent lifestyle decisions one partner normally takes the lead. Career-related attitudes affect decision-making in the home. Power, success and performance in the labor market therefore intersect with home in complex ways. In households with children, even in what had been egalitarian relationships, it is women rather than men who adjust their working hours and consequently put their careers on hold.
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Chapter 2: Households, careers and decision-making.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Hardill, Irene |
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Quelle: | Gender, Migration & the Dual Career Household; 2002, p20-36, 17p; (2002-09-05) S. 20-36 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2002 |
Medientyp: | Buch |
ISBN: | 978-0-415-24173-1 (print) |
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