Higher Stakes: Generational Differences in Mother and Daughters’ Feelings about Combining Motherhood with a Career

Armstrong, Jill

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“…This way, when work-life balance policies are discussed at workplaces, employers rarely make any reference to employees' (of any gender) ability to pursue their hobbies, favourite pastimes or other important life aspects. Rather, what is typically at stake is women's access to flexible working arrangements in order to accommodate childcare needs (Ely & Meyerson, 2000;Kalpazidou Schmidt & Cacace, 2019), revealing the genderedness of this concept (Armstrong, 2017;Rottenberg, 2018;Sørensen, 2017). Therefore, implicit in work-life balance more often than not lies work-family balance (Rottenberg, 2018).…”

Section: Women and Academic Careersmentioning

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‘All the single ladies’ as the ideal academic during times of COVID‐19?

Utoft

2020

Gender Work & Organization

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Much of what has hitherto been written about women’s lived experiences of the coronavirus pandemic takes their status as mothers and the spouses of men for granted. Skewed care demands on women researchers working from home may translate into individual career disadvantage and cumulative, large‐scale gender inequalities in the future, which is undeniably a serious issue. However, the narrative that single, childfree women must currently, by contrast, be unconcernedly enjoying a surge of productivity needs to be nuanced. Therefore, with this article, I autoethnographically discuss how living alone in the context of the COVID‐19 pandemic provides its own set of circumstances and is hardly problem‐free, which affects how one can deal with issues of academic productivity and work–life balance. Also, I take issue with the premise that our productivity is the golden standard against which we and our worth should be measured while we are living through a global crisis.

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Section: Women and Academic Careersmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘All the single ladies’ as the ideal academic during times of COVID‐19?

Utoft

2020

Gender Work & Organization

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“…Living in London now, I am beginning to get a better sense of the different inflections of this resuscitated feminist discourse and the way its articulation differs in different media. Although, as it happens, I just read an empirical study by Jill Armstrong (2017) where she demonstrates the uptake of this balance discourse among younger women. And Shani Orgad's (2017; work also points to the perhaps belated infiltration of the work-family balance ideal into the UK context, particularly through mediated venues like The Good Wife.…”

Section: Media/capitalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Postfeminism, popular feminism and neoliberal feminism? Sarah Banet-Weiser, Rosalind Gill and Catherine Rottenberg in conversation

2019

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In this unconventional article, Sarah Banet-Weiser, Rosalind Gill and Catherine Rottenberg conduct a three-way ‘conversation’ in which they all take turns outlining how they understand the relationship among postfeminism, popular feminism and neoliberal feminism. It begins with a short introduction, and then Ros, Sarah and Catherine each define the term they have become associated with. This is followed by another round in which they discuss the overlaps, similarities and disjunctures among the terms, and the article ends with how each one understands the current mediated feminist landscape.

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“…Balance has not only been incorporated into the social imagination as a cultural good but has helped to engender a new model of emancipated womanhood: a professional woman able to balance a successful career with a satisfying family life. A ‘happy work–family balance’, in other words, is currently being (re)presented not merely as a normative ideal for women but as a progressive feminist ideal, particularly in the Anglo‐American world (Orgad, , ; Rottenberg, ; see also Adamson, ; Armstrong, ). This new feminist ideal must be understood as helping to shape women's desires, aspirations and behaviour, as well as producing a feminist subject informed through and through by a market metrics.…”

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Women Who Work: The limits of the neoliberal feminist paradigm

Rottenberg

2018

Gender Work & Organization

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This article examines Ivanka Trump's Women Who Work, arguing that it represents the newest permutation of the neoliberal feminist subject. After providing an overview of the recent emergence of neoliberal feminism, I explain why the book should be considered part of the wider cultural landscape in which this variant of feminism has increasingly become commonsensical. I then turn to demonstrate how Women Who Work construes the ideal female subject not only as generic human capital but also incites her to invest in herself constantly, where activities ranging from professional workshops through hobbies to friendships are understood as practices that appreciate the value of the self. The conversion of women into generic rather than gendered human capital remains, however, incomplete, since the ideal of a happy work-family balance continues to serve as a push back to the wholesale erasure of traditional notions of sexual difference. Finally, I highlight that neoliberal feminism is erasing other long-standing divisions and political differences. Not only does the private-public divide collapse, but so, too, does the distinction between one's private self and one's public enterprise as the self itself becomes an enterprise. This dual process of collapse and reconfiguration shapes the newest neoliberal feminist subject, the main protagonist of Trump's Women Who Work.

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Higher Stakes: Generational Differences in Mother and Daughters’ Feelings about Combining Motherhood with a Career

Cited by 4 publications

References 32 publications

‘All the single ladies’ as the ideal academic during times of COVID‐19?

‘All the single ladies’ as the ideal academic during times of COVID‐19?

Postfeminism, popular feminism and neoliberal feminism? Sarah Banet-Weiser, Rosalind Gill and Catherine Rottenberg in conversation

Women Who Work: The limits of the neoliberal feminist paradigm

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