Solo‐living and childless professional women: Navigating the ‘balanced mother ideal’ over the fertile years

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One in five women are childless at midlife, and for an estimated 90 percent of these women, childlessness is not actively chosen. In this article, we explore how solo-living professional navigate the ‘balanced mother ideal’ over their fertile years what means organizations organization studies. Drawing on biographical narrative interview data from UK, argue that identifications with balanced ideal change life course as a result futurity, ambivalence, suppression negative emotions—part logic both postfeminism neoliberal feminism—and ‘disenfranchized grief’ contingent childlessness. At point late fertility, absence alternative social narratives to appears create crisis including workplace. We conclude our article recommendations can better cater needs significant, yet largely silenced, demographic group.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Gender, Work and Organization

سال: 2022

ISSN: ['1468-0432', '0968-6673']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12900