'WOMEN OF CAREER': WORK AS A VALUE AND A SOURCE OF EMPOWERMENT
The author analyses categories of work and career, understood as the space of experiencing personal satisfaction and self-efficacy. In this regard work has an emancipatory function, especially for women, for whom professional activity is a way to become independent. Different meanings of work for wo...
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doaj-cfc767eb127a4bb3803dc70c57696cc02021-08-23T20:19:00ZengPolish Naval Academy of the Heroes of WesterplatteColloquium2081-38132658-03652020-09-0112311712710.34813/26coll2020'WOMEN OF CAREER': WORK AS A VALUE AND A SOURCE OF EMPOWERMENTJoanna Ostrouch-Kamińska0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8211-740XUniversity of Warmia and Mazury in OlsztynThe author analyses categories of work and career, understood as the space of experiencing personal satisfaction and self-efficacy. In this regard work has an emancipatory function, especially for women, for whom professional activity is a way to become independent. Different meanings of work for women are reconstructed in relation to the ways of their professional engagement: ‘women of work’, and ‘women of career’. The author is focused on the second type. As an example of a ‘woman of career’ it is described a case of one dual-career family interviewed, as a part of bigger biographical research on gender equality in dual-career marriages. The case analysis shows that woman’s professional biography is constructed around the central category of continuous development. Professional career becomes a source of empowerment, release from traditionally assigned gender roles, and a space of acknowledgment of human dignity.https://colloquium.amw.gdynia.pl/index.php/colloquium/article/view/188/175womenworkprofessional careerdual-career familyempowerment |
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'WOMEN OF CAREER': WORK AS A VALUE AND A SOURCE OF EMPOWERMENT |
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'women of career': work as a value and a source of empowerment |
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Polish Naval Academy of the Heroes of Westerplatte |
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Colloquium |
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The author analyses categories of work and career, understood as the space of experiencing personal satisfaction and self-efficacy. In this regard work has an emancipatory function, especially for women, for whom professional activity is a way to become independent. Different meanings of work for women are reconstructed in relation to the ways of their professional engagement: ‘women of work’, and ‘women of career’. The author is focused on the second type. As an example of a ‘woman of career’ it is described a case of one dual-career family interviewed, as a part of bigger biographical research on gender equality in dual-career marriages. The case analysis shows that woman’s professional biography is constructed around the central category of continuous development. Professional career becomes a source of empowerment, release from traditionally assigned gender roles, and a space of acknowledgment of human dignity. |
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women work professional career dual-career family empowerment |
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