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Hong Kong Single Working Women's Pragmatic Negotiation of Work and Personal Space

Hong Kong Single Working Women's Pragmatic Negotiation of Work and Personal Space women’s different demands of women-friendly organizational policies than married working mothers (Chiu and Ng 2001). While paid work has been shown to be central to single women’s lives, little is known about how they negotiate the interface between work (i.e., paid employment) and their personal life. Career influences partner choice, and vice versa (Gordon 1994). Yet, the little attention in organization studies paid to single working women’s work-personal interface (in contrast to the voluminous body of literature on the workconjugal family interface) suggests that most people assume that single working women face fewer difficulties than married working mothers1, or that their dedication and commitment to work means that they are better able to overcome the difficulties they encounter. This might be true, but an important question has rarely been asked: what are the decisions, and compromises if any, that single working women have to make in balancing their work and their personal lives? Evans (2003) points out that while there are suggestions that single life is a good life, it needs to be contextualized in ‘late capitalism.’ Against the background of material plenty and new affluence, women, as well as men, work hard to ensure job security. Is http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anthropology of Work Review Wiley

Hong Kong Single Working Women's Pragmatic Negotiation of Work and Personal Space

Ng, Catherine W.; Ng, Evelyn G. H.
Anthropology of Work Review , Volume 25 (1‐2) – Mar 1, 2004
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women’s different demands of women-friendly organizational policies than married working mothers (Chiu and Ng 2001). While paid work has been shown to be central to single women’s lives, little is known about how they negotiate the interface between work (i.e., paid employment) and their personal life. Career influences partner choice, and vice versa (Gordon 1994). Yet, the little attention in organization studies paid to single working women’s work-personal interface (in contrast to the voluminous body of literature on the workconjugal family interface) suggests that most people assume that single working women face fewer difficulties than married working mothers1, or that their dedication and commitment to work means that they are better able to overcome the difficulties they encounter. This might be true, but an important question has rarely been asked: what are the decisions, and compromises if any, that single working women have to make in balancing their work and their personal lives? Evans (2003) points out that while there are suggestions that single life is a good life, it needs to be contextualized in ‘late capitalism.’ Against the background of material plenty and new affluence, women, as well as men, work hard to ensure job security. Is

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