Guillaume, C. orcid.org/0000-0001-5331-8811, Kirton, G. and Elliott, C. orcid.org/0000-0003-3838-4452 (2024) The fate of being a ‘distressed asset’: insights into women returners’ experiences in the UK. Sociology, 58 (6). pp. 1432-1450. ISSN 0038-0385
Abstract
Building on studies looking into how professionals encounter stigma and negotiate their work lives, this article fills a gap in extant sociological literature on gender and professional work by providing original qualitative data on professional women’s supported re-entry-to-work experiences. Examining the development of returner programmes in the UK, we investigate the supportive factors in the mitigation of stigma threats associated with the returner status, including organisational support and individual stigma-management strategies. We examine how these social processes contribute to alleviating stigmatisation only partially, while maintaining persistent wage and career discrimination for women returners. To explain this mixed result, we explore the way in which women returners inhabit neoliberal feminist subjectivities.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2024. Creative Commons License (CC BY 4.0) This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
Keywords: | gender equality; return-to-work; stigma; stigmatisation; women’s careers |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Management School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 06 Aug 2024 14:47 |
Last Modified: | 20 Nov 2024 15:41 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/00380385241257480 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:215536 |