A qualitative exploration of managerial mothers' flexible careers: the role of multiple contexts

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dc.contributor.authorMichaelides, Andrie
dc.contributor.authorAnderson, Deirdre A.
dc.contributor.authorVinnicombe, Susan
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-02T13:28:08Z
dc.date.available2023-02-02T13:28:08Z
dc.date.freetoread2025-01-12
dc.date.issued2023-01-11
dc.description.abstractThis study explores the lived career experiences of women managers with children in Sweden. Drawing on existing theory on flexible careers which proposes that multiple contexts – institutional, organizational and individual - shape employees' career decisions, we present findings from a study of 34 career mothers in dual-income households within a large engineering company in Sweden. We show that the institutional context in Sweden, with its shared parental leave, is an important element in the women's career decisions by directly mandating the fathers' engagement with childcare and home roles and indirectly fostering a family-supportive organizational culture. We theorize that the family context needs to be incorporated into existing theoretical models and specifically demonstrate how continuing shared childcare roles between the parents is critical to mothers' career outcomes. We evidence the various ways in which fathers engage with home responsibilities and how that influences the mothers' career decisions. Furthermore, we argue that the institutional environment has consequences which cascade down to each of the other contextual levels and that the importance of the different contexts can vary according to the work-care regime. We therefore challenge recent research which claims that the industry ecosystem is the crucial force in shaping women's careers.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationMichaelides A, Anderson D, Vinnicombe S. (2023) A qualitative exploration of managerial mothers' flexible careers: the role of multiple contexts, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Volume 141, March 2023, Article number 103840en_UK
dc.identifier.eissn1095-9084
dc.identifier.issn0001-8791
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2022.103840
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/19105
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherElsevieren_UK
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectFlexible careersen_UK
dc.subjectWomen managersen_UK
dc.subjectInstitutional environmenten_UK
dc.subjectOrganizational dynamicsen_UK
dc.subjectFamily contexten_UK
dc.subjectIndustry ecosystemen_UK
dc.titleA qualitative exploration of managerial mothers' flexible careers: the role of multiple contextsen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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