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CULTURAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF FAMILY SCHEMAS: The Case of Women Finance Executives
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This article uses interview data to examine changes over time in the cultural constructions of executive women's family responsibilities. The author delineates two gendered cultural structures: the family devotion schema and the work devotion schema. Respondents are caught in the conflict between each schema's competing vision of a worthwhile life. Older respondents are more likely to accept the devotion schema's definition of an irreconcilable conflict between work and family, prompting many to avoid marriage or childbearing. In contrast, many members of the youngest cohort, who came of age after the early 1970s women's movement, are refashioning the family devotion schema by subcontracting out domestic responsibilities while maintaining demanding careers. Yet, the family devotion schema continues to haunt all cohorts, enduring in its cognitive, normative, and emotional power. Gender, as expressed in cultural models of family, remains a powerful constraint on the hearts and minds of even professionally successful women.
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“The former highlights the important role of cultural beliefs, rules and schemas in enacting gender, acknowledging that formal employment and tertiary education of women has risen while culture sustains inegalitarian gender role attitudes (Blair-Loy, 2001).”
From Virtues or Talent among Brotherless Daughters: A Study of How Patriarchal Gender Ideals Affect Gender Role Attitudes among Women from the One-Child Generation in China (2024) · cites this paper as Blair-Loy, 2001
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“Blair-Loy's (2001) cross-cohort research shows how the cultural schema of devotion to work affected highly achieving women who broke into the men's world of finance. Social roles changed for women, but devotion to work functions as a default masculine standard that required women to suppress feminine desires and make private sacrifices.”
From Virtues or Talent among Brotherless Daughters: A Study of How Patriarchal Gender Ideals Affect Gender Role Attitudes among Women from the One-Child Generation in China (2024) · cites this paper as Blair-Loy, 2001
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Metadata
- Authors
- BLAIR-LOY, M.
- Affiliations
- Washington State University
- Venue
- Gender & Society
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2001-10
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 687-709
- ISSN
- 0891-2432 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-3977
- OpenAlex
- W2134459154
- Cited by
- 199
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 11.86
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Gender & Society (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Work-Family Balance Challenges
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
- Keywords
- women executives, work-family conflict, gender roles, domestic responsibilities, women's movement, generational differences, marriage avoidance, childbearing, women's careers
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