BALANCE BETWEEN FAMILY-OCCUPATION-PRIVATE LIFE IN ACADEMICIAN WOMEN IN EXECUTIVE POSITIONS
YÖNETİCİ POZİSYONDAKİ AKADEMİSYEN KADINLARDA AİLE –İŞ- ÖZEL YAŞAM DENGESİ

Author : Kübra KÜÇÜKŞEN
Number of pages : 662-674

Abstract

Although the number of female academicians has rapidly increased in recent years in Turkey, it is a well-known reality that they are not in decision-making mechanisms and executive positions. It is required to understand the family and private relationships of women besides their occupation to understand women’s making their presence felt in the departments related to fields of occupation deemed as “proper” for women and felt in the positions in lower steps of hierarchy in academic life. Mostly encountered problem for women squeezed among academic career and traditional gender mainstreaming roles is the problem of “balancing job, family and private life”. Women have to work and exert more compared to their male colleagues to acquire academic rise criteria and do housework and care they see as under their responsibilities and authority. It is targeted in this study to research negative-positive effects of female academicians’ taking part in executive and decision making mechanisms on their family and private lives and tried to reveal how female academicians in executive positions, in quite small numbers in Turkey, balance between family, occupation and private life while living this “endless shift” and which support mechanisms they need from the perspective of women. The research is a qualitative study having a descriptive feature. Interview form was prepared and face to face meetings were held with 10 female academicians in executive positions in Konya Necmettin Erbakan University. According to the findings acquired, female executive academicians have to work much more than their male colleagues to balance family, occupation and private life and mostly, they have to make sacrifice from their private lives and families and support of spouse and family is significant to be successful in executive positions.

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