Coming Home Again: The Challenges and Rewards of Home-Based Self-Employment

This article focuses on ways of negotiating and balancing work and family as identified by in-depth qualitative interviews with 20 women working as Mary Kay consultants. Areas such as detailed descriptions of work structures, how the women did their work, how they balanced their work and family dema...

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Published in:Journal of family issues 2003-05, Vol.24 (4), p.513-546
Main Author: Berke, Debra L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Consultants
Dependents
Employment Level
Family Structure
Family Work Relationship
Females
Home based businesses
Home working
Home Workplaces
Jews
Role Conflict
Self Employment
Selfemployment
Work-Family conflict
Working Women
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Summary:This article focuses on ways of negotiating and balancing work and family as identified by in-depth qualitative interviews with 20 women working as Mary Kay consultants. Areas such as detailed descriptions of work structures, how the women did their work, how they balanced their work and family demands on a daily basis, and their perceptions of how family obligations and gender influenced their choice of a job and their job experiences were investigated. Data revealed that women negotiate work and family using spatial, behavioral, temporal, social, and psychological strategies to manage internal and external temporal and spatial boundaries. Further research should continue to explore the interaction of work and family with other home-based self-employed occupations.
ISSN:0192-513X
1552-5481
DOI:10.1177/0192513X02250754