Proceedings of the Meaning in Life International Conference 2022 - Cultivating, Promoting, and Enhancing Meaning in Life Across Cultures and Life Span (MIL 2022)

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Between Career and Motherhood: Understanding Female Academics’ Pursuit of Success with Hofstede’s “Masculinity/Femininity” Dimension

Authors
Anna Wing Bo Tso1, *
1The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR
*Corresponding author. Email: annatso@hsu.edu.hk
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Anna Wing Bo Tso
Available Online 27 December 2022.
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-096-1_8How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Academia; Geert Hofstede; gender roles; motherhood wage penalty; professorship
Abstract

According to Hofstede’s (1984, 2001) work-related cultural dimensions, a masculine workplace encourages success, ambition, and competition, often at the expense of its employees’ pursue of well-being and meaning in life. In this paper, a small-scale ethnographic study has been conducted to shed light on how female academics in Hong Kong struggle to pursue their meaning of life by striking a balance between career advancement and motherhood. Based on Hofstede’s framework, the first part of the paper examines the demographic differences in recruitment and promotion of male and female professors in a university of Hong Kong. The second part of the paper discusses the findings collected from the semi-structured interviews with three female academics working for the university. The local study is in line with recent research overseas, which reveals how female academics, in the hope of pursuing their meaning in life, strive hard to juggle their career, marriage and motherhood.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Meaning in Life International Conference 2022 - Cultivating, Promoting, and Enhancing Meaning in Life Across Cultures and Life Span (MIL 2022)
Series
Atlantis Highlights in Social Sciences, Education and Humanities
Publication Date
27 December 2022
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978-94-6463-096-1
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2667-128X
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10.2991/978-94-6463-096-1_8How to use a DOI?
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© 2022 The Author(s)
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