Taking a step back? Expatriation consequences on women in dual-career couples in the Gulf

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Ridgway, M. ORCID: 0000-0003-4426-6516, 2021. Taking a step back? Expatriation consequences on women in dual-career couples in the Gulf. Merits, 1 (1), pp. 47-60. ISSN 2673-8104

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/merits1010006

Abstract

This article develops our understanding of how host country contextual features affect the career coordination strategies of dual-career couples (DCCs) from the perspective of expatriate women. The lived experiences of nine women expatriates in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) were explored through in-depth interviews. The findings challenge our understanding of the coordinated career strategies of DCCs by suggesting that sociocultural features of the host country context can hamper egalitarian career strategies such that they become hierarchical and subsequently negatively impact women expatriates’ career capital. Not only are women’s careers hampered while in the GCC, but the contextual setting has a long-term adverse effect on women’s career capital. The main results from this study suggest that sociocultural features of the host country setting, such as the inability to access professional networks due to gendered segregation, prevent women’s careers from being prioritised and force a ‘tipping point’, creating a lag in women’s careers and negatively impacting their career capital.

Item Type:

Journal article

Publication Title:

Merits

Creators:

Ridgway, M.

Publisher:

MDPI

Date:

21 June 2021

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ISSN:

2673-8104

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Number	Type
10.3390/merits1010006	DOI
1447305	Other

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© 2021 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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Schools > Nottingham Business School

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Laura Ward

Date Added:

21 Jun 2021 15:35

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21 Jun 2021 15:35

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