A study on effect of gender ideology on work and family responsibilities amongst medical professionals.
Reconciling work and family is a major challenge for female doctors. Women remain as the primary caretaker of the children despite their high-status professional careers. The tension between dual roles of mothers and professionals lead some female doctors to trade-off various priorities in their liv...
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| author | Tan, Yee Yee. |
| author2 | Sun Hsiao-Li Shirley |
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| description | Reconciling work and family is a major challenge for female doctors. Women remain as the primary caretaker of the children despite their high-status professional careers. The tension between dual roles of mothers and professionals lead some female doctors to trade-off various priorities in their lives in order to spend more time with their children. This qualitative study aims to investigate the lived experience of stay-at home mothers and also the perspective of the male doctors in the work-family juggling act using individual in-depth interviews. The dominant themes encompassed the decision for doctors to stay home, the perceived benefit and how their personal values play an important role in their decision-making process. Findings indicate that family care giving as the main responsibility of women remains despite their professional training and high level of education. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/404972019-12-10T14:41:37Z A study on effect of gender ideology on work and family responsibilities amongst medical professionals. Tan, Yee Yee. Sun Hsiao-Li Shirley School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Family, marriage and women Reconciling work and family is a major challenge for female doctors. Women remain as the primary caretaker of the children despite their high-status professional careers. The tension between dual roles of mothers and professionals lead some female doctors to trade-off various priorities in their lives in order to spend more time with their children. This qualitative study aims to investigate the lived experience of stay-at home mothers and also the perspective of the male doctors in the work-family juggling act using individual in-depth interviews. The dominant themes encompassed the decision for doctors to stay home, the perceived benefit and how their personal values play an important role in their decision-making process. Findings indicate that family care giving as the main responsibility of women remains despite their professional training and high level of education. Bachelor of Arts 2010-06-16T03:15:10Z 2010-06-16T03:15:10Z 2010 2010 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/40497 en Nanyang Technological University 35 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Family, marriage and women Tan, Yee Yee. A study on effect of gender ideology on work and family responsibilities amongst medical professionals. |
| title | A study on effect of gender ideology on work and family responsibilities amongst medical professionals. |
| title_full | A study on effect of gender ideology on work and family responsibilities amongst medical professionals. |
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| title_short | A study on effect of gender ideology on work and family responsibilities amongst medical professionals. |
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| topic | DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Family, marriage and women |
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