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- Title
“The Price You Pay”: How Female Professional Chefs Negotiate Work and Family.
- Authors
Harris, Deborah; Giuffre, Patti
- Abstract
Work–family conflict can act as an important, and gendered, mechanism underlying women’s under-representation in male-dominated occupations. This study uses in-depth interviews to explore the experiences of female professional chefs in order to understand how women in a prestigious, yet male-dominated service occupation manage barriers relating to their balance of work and family responsibilities. Conflict between work and family responsibilities often stemmed from the long work hours expected of chefs and played a role in some of our participant’s decisions to leave kitchen work. Respondents in this study negotiate work–family conflict using three strategies: (1) delaying/forgoing childbearing to succeed as a chef; (2) leaving kitchen work for another job in the culinary field; and (3) adapting either work or family to make the two roles more compatible. Our conclusion discusses the implications of these strategies for gender inequality in the workplace, particularly for women in male-dominated occupations.
- Subjects
FAMILY-work relationship; COOKS; FAMILIES; DUAL-career families; WORK-life balance; LABOR time
- Publication
Gender Issues, 2010, Vol 27, Issue 1/2, p27
- ISSN
1098-092X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12147-010-9086-8