Current Perspectives in Feminist Media Studies by Lisa McLaughlin Cynthia Carter

Author:Lisa McLaughlin, Cynthia Carter [Lisa McLaughlin, Cynthia Carter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780415754729
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Goodreads: 18636107
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-10-03T00:00:00+00:00

Susan’s story highlights the difficulties of working from home with young children and the serious conflict this posed to her established measures of professional performance. Other mothers in the study faced similar problems.

Lucky Mummies

Claire was a 33-year-old marketing professional who worked for a telco provider three days a week. On Thursdays and Fridays she stayed home with her son, and she described these as the days “when I’m not properly at work” and “I just want to do a bit.”

Thursday and Friday are my days off, but at the moment we have, I’ll be setting up a meeting for Thursday, and typically Thursday morning is a bit of a catch-up morning for me anyway to send out a lot of emails and get a lot of things moving so that I don’t have to wait until Monday before I can get momentum happening on things.

Without this extra work, Claire thought that her return to the office on a Monday would be “really stressful. Yeah, and that’s why I do it, it’s not because there’s pressure from the management team to do it at all, but it’s more just for my own sanity.” Claire explained her arrangement as “about me being in control,” even though by the time of our second meeting the amount of work she was doing outside the office had increased. Whereas initially it was just a case of keeping an eye on things during her day off, only “occasionally doing that extra bit, in the space of twelve months it had become ‘pretty regular’.” She emphasised that:

Management would never expect me to be online, you know. But it’s more just if I don’t, like if I’ve had a really crazy day of meetings, like yesterday, and there were so many back-to-back meetings, and I just knew my e-mail was out of control and I had things that I needed to get done, I will sleep better if I spend an hour or an hour and a half at night just getting on top ofthat, otherwise I will wake up at 4 am in the morning and I’ll be just spinning around my head. Got to do this, got to do that. So yeah, for my own sanity.

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