How Self-Employed Women with Children Manage Multiple Life Roles

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  • Rebecca E. Hudson Breen University of Lethbridge
  • Susan L. Tasker University of Victoria
  • Bryan Hiebert University of Victoria

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Career-life##common.commaListSeparator## Women entrepreneurs##common.commaListSeparator## Mothers##common.commaListSeparator## Counselling

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Although there is a strong body of existing research on women’s career-life development and on women’s entrepreneurship, there is a lack of understanding of the specific experiences of mother entrepreneurs. This grounded theory study addresses the question of how self-employed women with children manage their multiple life roles. The core category “Keeping Going” illustrates a basic social process that is recursively fuelled and affected by 7 key properties: feeling supported, making choices, adapting creatively, remembering the push, remembering the pull, envisioning the future, and living my values. Implications for further research and counselling practice are discussed.

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2017-07-28

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##issue.vol## 51 ##issue.no## 3 (2017): Regular Issue

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Special Articles/ Articles spéciaux

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Copyright is retained by the Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy.

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How Self-Employed Women with Children Manage Multiple Life Roles. (2017). Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy, 51(3). https://dev.journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/rcc/article/view/61092