| Summary: | 碩士 === 國防大學政治作戰學院 === 政治研究所 === 103 === Universal education, increased self-awareness and improved family economic needs, housewives slowly walk out of the kitchen, into the workplace, with the ratio of women joining the labor market increased gradually as a result of changing family patterns, double-income families having affected the patriarchal patterns in which males work outside while females function as housewives. When a woman becomes a mother, no matter what profession she is in, she still cannot get rid of her stereotyped role as a mother, which puts her in a dilemma where her professional work clashes with her household duties.
This study used qualitative research methods and conducted, in-depth interviews with eight professional women who are also mothers in order to explore how these career women confronted their multiple, conflicting roles. Here are four key findings of this study: 1, resources provided by the social support system can effectively reduce the impact of the workplace-family conflict, and the most important support comes from a professional woman's workplace executives and her family; 2, pressures on professional women usually result from three sources: tradition, economy and psychology; and 3, under the dual pressures from the workplace and the family, professional women still feel some degree of happiness as a mother even though they feel they do not provide enough maternal care to their children; 4, for mothers who are also soldiers, the interference with their role as parents from their workplace is significantly higher than that for other mothers who are in civilian careers .
Finally, based on its findings, this study provide three recommendations: 1, to establish a good social welfare systems; 2, establish a women-friendly working environment; 3, to establish a good family division of labor system. Here are three other recommendations for ameliorating the difficulties facing mothers in a military career: 1, to think from the perspective of mothers with a military career; 2, to establish and improve community-based daycare systems for military career women; 3, to make sure military career women could benefit from welfare stipulated by the armed forces for them.
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