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Area of Science:

  • Sociology
  • Psychology
  • Gender Studies

Background:

  • Employed mothers navigate complex work and family roles.
  • Understanding social support is crucial for their well-being and career progression.
  • Worker ideology influences how individuals perceive and utilize support.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between employed mothers' social support network composition and their worker ideology.
  • To identify patterns in social support networks among working mothers.
  • To analyze how network types correlate with different orientations to worker ideology.

Main Methods:

  • Reanalysis of data from two longitudinal interview studies.
  • Development of ecomaps to visualize social support network composition.
  • Categorization of networks into diverse, restricted, and mixed types based on support availability, consistency, and sources.

Main Results:

  • Five types of support sources were identified: household family, nonhousehold family, friends/neighbors, workplace, and formal services.
  • Women with innovator or conformist worker ideologies predominantly had mixed or diverse networks.
  • Conformist women often had supportive workplaces but did not use formal services; innovator transitioners received consistent support, especially from household family.

Conclusions:

  • Social support network composition is intrinsically linked to employed mothers' worker ideology.
  • Network diversity and consistency, particularly from household family, facilitate transitions towards an innovator worker ideology.
  • Workplace support is significant for conformist orientations, while formal services are less utilized by this group.