OCCUPATIONAL STATUS LEAKAGE AND MARITAL INSTABILITY: EVIDENCE FROM MARRIED FEMALE BANKERS IN NIGERIA
This study investigates the inadvertent costs of attaining elevated occupational status levels and the possible costs to marriages that can emanate from women occupying high occupational status positions. It proposes that women who demonstrate occupational status leakages boast superior propensi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universitaria Press Craiova
2018-11-01
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| Series: | Management & Marketing |
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| Online Access: | http://mnmk.ro/documents/2018_02/P151.pdf |
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| Summary: | This study investigates the inadvertent costs of attaining elevated
occupational status levels and the possible costs to marriages that can
emanate from women occupying high occupational status positions. It
proposes that women who demonstrate occupational status leakages boast
superior propensities for marital instability. Women encountering
occupational status leakage are more likely to be unhappy with their
relationships, and thus experience marital insecurity. However, the extent to
which occupation status leakage forecasts marital fulfilment can be abated
by spousal support. The study of 189 Female married bankers who were in
managerial cadres in the Lagos metropolis tested six hypotheses and found
that a negative correlation between occupational status leakage and marital
fulfilment. The existence of children mediates the correlation between
fulfilment and marital insecurity. Culture persists in shaming men who slow
down for their spouse’s careers but the value of males as helpful husbands
of their wives are underscored in this study. Significant work is obligatory to
decrease the societal shame. The significance of one’s family alternatives
must be underlined early on in women’s ascension to the peak. In training
opportunities for women in aimed at women development in the workplace,
there should be chances to inform and delineate the potential costs to one’s
private life of attaining high status. |
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| ISSN: | 1841-2416 |