ISSN:
1573-7837
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Sociology
Notes:
Abstract Because of cultural, historical and other social structural factors, men and women with the same chronological age have had quite different career trajectories. This paper examines how the different career-paths of men and women academics create differences in their images of aging, self and work. In-depth interviews (N=47) were conducted with a sample of male and female professors, currently between fifty and sixty years of age. Male respondents nearly uniformly followed continuous, linear careers while the women's careers were, with equal uniformity, discontinuous. Data suggest that this difference in career routes fashions different “gender timeclocks,” i.e., different experiences of aging.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00987011
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