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Cross, Christine, Darcy, Colette and Garavan, Thomas (2024) Work Re-Entry Following Maternity Leave for First-Time Mothers: An Events, Social Identity and Intersectional Theories Informed Identity Work Framework. Gender, Work & Organization. pp. 1-20. ISSN 1468-0432
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Many first-time mothers experience significant identity issues on work re-entry following maternity leave, an important individual and life-related event. Work re-entry prompts significant identity tensions leading to identity work challenges and potential career changes. We address this significant life event and develop a subjective identity informed conceptual framework explaining its key components and outcomes. We propose that for first-time mothers, re-entry following maternity leave triggers a cognitive and subjective assessment of identity threat and opportunity leading to the use of multiple identity work strategies to address personal, role, and collective identities. We analyze the impacts of these reworked identities and identity work for career decision making and outcomes. We theoretically underpin our framework using event systems, a subjective perspective on social identity and intersectional theories and in doing so, propose future research questions and highlight implications for national policy and organizational practices.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > Issues of Labour and Work > Parental Leave H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > Issues of Labour and Work > Classes of Labour > Women and Work |
| Divisions: | School of Business > Staff Research and Publications |
| Depositing User: | Tamara Malone |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jul 2024 10:46 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jul 2024 10:46 |
| URI: | https://norma.ncirl.ie/id/eprint/6993 |
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