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Tension between professional work and motherhood: representations about professional work in women who have decided against experiencing motherhood

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No. 21 (2024): Junio
https://doi.org/10.5354/2735-7473.2024.75177

Abstract

This article explores the place occupied by professional work in the lives of women working in Greater Rosario (Argentina) who have decided against motherhood. With an intensive methodology based on in-depth interviews, I have approached how the changes in the labor market and their implications strain and resignify the relationship between professional work and motherhood. My findings reveal that while professional work constitutes an important reference in the economic, cultural, psychological and symbolic fields, the consolidation of labor flexibility in a society where caregiving roles are still attributed to women makes it impossible to achieve a simultaneity between professional work and motherhood for a significant portion of the subjects, which evidences an increased tension between capital and social reproduction in the current capitalist regime.

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Professional work, motherhood, labor flexibility

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Tania Fabrina Corsetti, ISHIR-CONICET-UNR

Magister en Poder y Sociedad desde la Problemática del Género, Licenciada y Profesora en Antropología- Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Doctoranda en Universidad de Buenos Aires. Becaria doctoral del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas en Investigaciones Socio Históricas Regionales (ISHIR-CONICET-UNR).

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Fabrina Corsetti, T. (2024). Tension between professional work and motherhood: representations about professional work in women who have decided against experiencing motherhood. Revista Punto Género, (21), pp. 150–181. https://doi.org/10.5354/2735-7473.2024.75177
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