Ageing towards meaningful work? Age, labour-market change, and attitudes to work in the Swedish workforce, 1979–2003

Örestig, Johan

doi:10.7577/njsr.2079

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“…Regarding ageing amongst women in general, Krekula (2007) identifies positive changes such as personal growth and development as well as higher self-esteem. Additionally, older working people generally express more intrinsic attitudes toward work: the older the individual is, the more they emphasise work as rewarding in itself, as providing meaningful tasks and social contacts ( € Orestig, 2014), and emotionally meaningful goals (Scheibe and Carstensen, 2010). Later-life entrepreneurs (who start a business at a more advanced age) experience more intrinsic rewards such as personal fulfilment and work-life balance and are more likely to be women than career entrepreneurs (who are entrepreneurs during their main employment years) (Kerr, 2017).…”

Section: Older Women Entrepreneurs'mentioning

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Meaningfulness and self-integrity at work amongst older, self-employed women entrepreneurs

Lindström

Ansio²,

Steel³

2022

IJGE

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PurposeThis study identifies how self-employed older women experience and represent self-integrity – an element and source of meaningfulness – in their work, and how these experiences are intertwined with gendered ageing.Design/methodology/approachThe authors used thematic analysis, influenced by an intersectional lens, to scrutinise qualitative data generated during a development project, with ten over 55-year-old self-employed women in Finland.FindingsThe study reveals three dominant practices of self-integrity at work: “Respecting one's self-knowledge”, “Using one's professional abilities”, and “Developing as a professional”. Older age was mostly experienced and represented as a characteristic that deepened or strengthened the practices and experiences of self-integrity at work. However, being an older woman partly convoluted that. Self-integrity as a self-employed woman was repeatedly experienced and represented in contrast to the male norm of entrepreneurship.Originality/valueThe authors contribute to the literature on gender and entrepreneurship by highlighting the processual dimensions – how integrity with self is experienced, created and sustained, and how being an older woman relates to self-integrity in self-employment. The results show a nuanced interplay between gender and age: Age and gender both constrain and become assets for older women in self-employment through older women's experiences of self-integrity.

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Section: Older Women Entrepreneurs'mentioning

confidence: 99%

Meaningfulness and self-integrity at work amongst older, self-employed women entrepreneurs

Lindström

Ansio²,

Steel³

2022

IJGE

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Ageing towards meaningful work? Age, labour-market change, and attitudes to work in the Swedish workforce, 1979–2003

Abstract: A central finding in earlier research on work orientation is that 1979 -2003 . Three sub-periods, 1986 -1987, 1994-1996 -2003 were compared with 1979

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Meaningfulness and self-integrity at work amongst older, self-employed women entrepreneurs

Meaningfulness and self-integrity at work amongst older, self-employed women entrepreneurs

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