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Patterns of Adjustment to the Career/Family Conflict of Technically Trained Women in the United States and Israel 1
Author(s) -
Etzion Dalia,
Bailyn Lotte
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1994.tb01561.x
Subject(s) - dilemma , femininity , face (sociological concept) , situational ethics , socioeconomic status , politics , context (archaeology) , perspective (graphical) , psychology , identity (music) , social psychology , gender studies , sociology , political science , social science , law , population , epistemology , philosophy , paleontology , demography , physics , artificial intelligence , computer science , acoustics , biology
The number of women in technical/scientific careers is still very small worldwide. The aim of the present paper is to understand how women who are already pursuing technical careers experience and reconcile the demands of their professional and private lives in two different national contexts. Participants in the study were 453 women in two countries with different socioeconomic, political, and cultural backgrounds: the United States and Israel. The cross‐cultural perspective is employed here in order to better understand the universal aspects of the phenomenon, as opposed to those that are tied to a particular situational or cultural context. Women in both countries face a practical dilemma in combining career and family as well as a femininity dilemma related to their identity as women. These dilemmas differ according to the life stage of the women, but the effects vary by national culture.