“Squeezing the Life Out of Each Day”: Emerging Adult Women’s Work-Family Expectations in STEM-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

“Squeezing the Life Out of Each Day”: Emerging Adult Women’s Work-Family Expectations in STEM

Published:2021-02-09 Issue:1 Volume:10 Page:76-89
ISSN:2167-6968
Container-title:Emerging Adulthood
language:en
Short-container-title:Emerging Adulthood

Author:

Thoman Sarah E.¹^ORCID,Stephens Amber K.²³,Robnett Rachael D.¹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA

2. Department of Communication Studies, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA

3. R&R Partners, Las Vegas, NV, USA

Abstract

Work-family conflict can create challenges for women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers. Little is known, however, about how young women in STEM reason about future work-family conflict. The current study examines work-family conflict expectations among undergraduate and graduate women in STEM. Participants ( N = 156) responded to open- and closed-ended survey questions about work-family conflict and academic attitudes. Qualitative analyses revealed two orientations relative to work-family conflict. Women with a challenge orientation anticipated work and family strain, whereas women with an opportunity orientation anticipated that balancing work and family would enhance their lives. Women differed in the strategies they planned to employ to resolve future work-family conflict and in their levels of quantitative constructs such as STEM identity. Findings suggest avenues for improving STEM retention such as mentoring interventions with exposure to role models who are balancing work and family.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Life-span and Life-course Studies,Developmental and Educational Psychology,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2167696821990910

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