Structuring Commitments in Interrupted Careers: Career Breaks, Commitment and the Life Cycle in Teaching

Healy, Geraldine

doi:10.1111/1468-0432.00082

Cited by 33 publications

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“…Slater, 1980;Kyriacou and Coulthard, 2000;Kyriacou et al, 2002). The dualism of human agency and structural conditions marks the contested ground for the literature on career 'choice' (Roberts, 1977;Healy, 1999).…”

Section: Overview Of the Career 'Choice' Literaturementioning

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Explaining influences on career ‘choice’: the case of MBA students in comparative perspective

Özbilgin¹,

Küskü²,

Erdoğmuş³

2005

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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This study explores the micro-individual, meso-institutional and relational and macro-structural level influences on career choices of MBA students from three countries, questioning the apparent dominance of ‘free choice’ in the context of persistent forms of structural constraints in career markets. The paper takes a critical perspective on career ‘choice’, acknowledging the contested nature of ‘choice’ and identifying career as a socially and historically situated phenomenon. The central hypothesis of the study is that ‘it is more likely for the MBA students to report micro-agentic or meso-instutional and relational rather than macro-structural conditions as key influences on their career choices’. The study draws on the findings of a cross-national survey on careers involving Britain, Israel and Turkey. Findings show that MBA students consider the impact of structural conditions as less significant on their career choices than their own human capital and capacity to make free choices. The study provides an understanding of the main cross-national similarities and differences in reporting of influences on career ‘choice’, and brings to bare interesting theoretical and methodological insights

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Section: Overview Of the Career 'Choice' Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Explaining influences on career ‘choice’: the case of MBA students in comparative perspective

Özbilgin¹,

Küskü²,

Erdoğmuş³

2005

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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“…Women teachers may be at the forefront of this pattern since teaching has traditionally been associated with shorter hours and longer holidays attracting highly qualified women intending to combine a teaching and mothering career (Healy, 1999).…”

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Do Women Teachers Get a Fair Deal? An Assessment of Teachers' Pensions

Foster

2007

Soc Pol Soc

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There has been considerable debate about the future of pension provision over recent years and, in particular, the precarious position of many female pensioners. However, scant attention has been given to women contributing to occupational pensions despite gender differences in levels of accumulation. This article uses evidence from interviews with twenty retired female teachers to outline the difficulties women in the teaching profession have faced in building up occupational pension entitlements. Finally it highlights that pensions research needs to consider females with access to occupational pension provision to understand the situation of pensioners with a minimal pension income in retirement.

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“…The methodology of the current study is, however, limited by being crosssectional and it cannot tackle the interplay between agency and structure (e.g. Healy 1999;Proctor and Padfield 1999). Moreover further research is necessary to investigate how primary care-giver status is contributing strongly to gender segmentation of the paid work force, given there was no difference between women and men in their commitment to paid employment.…”

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Commitment to Work, Care Giving and Seniority: The Case of Nursing

Brown

Jones

2008

Sex Roles

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The current study examined whether differences in commitment to paid employment or different levels of private sphere responsibility between women and men could explain the gender segmentation of the paid work force. A survey of a composite sample (N= 380) of Australian nurses showed that there were no significant differences between women and men in terms of commitment to paid employment although commitment was a predictor of seniority. Primary care-giving status also predicted seniority and women were more likely than men to have care-giving responsibility for dependents. Multiple logistic regression showed that, independent of gender, primary responsibility for care-giving to dependents, rather than commitment to paid employment, explained more of the differing chances for women and men of being in senior positions.

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Structuring Commitments in Interrupted Careers: Career Breaks, Commitment and the Life Cycle in Teaching

Cited by 33 publications

References 21 publications

Explaining influences on career ‘choice’: the case of MBA students in comparative perspective

Explaining influences on career ‘choice’: the case of MBA students in comparative perspective

Do Women Teachers Get a Fair Deal? An Assessment of Teachers' Pensions

Commitment to Work, Care Giving and Seniority: The Case of Nursing

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