Pregnant Bodies: Norwegian female employees in global working life

Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

"This article examines the impact that the interplay between workplace, the welfare state and global working life has on female workers when they become pregnant. By focusing on two highly educated Norwegian female workers, it explores how this change process takes place in two companies operating in the global market located in different countries: Norway and the US. Pregnancy contributes to transforming the neutralized bodiless female worker into an embodied worker with gender. The female workers' experiences and negotiations represent forms of global action on local stages. This is illustrated by four processes: `married to work', `pregnant and still married to work', `negotiating separation from work' and `excluding mothering'. The findings indicate the significance of taking welfare state and workplace policy approaches into consideration in studies of global effects on employees." [author's abstract]

Object Details

• Extent: Seite(n): 311-326
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: European Journal of Women's Studies, 14(4)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ; Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung ; Arbeitswelt ; Gender

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Børve, Hege Eggen
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (when): 2007

Further information

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506807081878
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-225472
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST