The career identities of ‘mumpreneurs’: Women’s experiences of combining enterprise and motherhood
基于对20位妈妈创业者的访谈，研究她们如何通过创业兼顾育儿与收入，发现她们在密集母职与创业话语间寻求平衡，但面临工作时间过长和限制企业成长的张力。
This article examines the experiences of women who establish new ventures in order to combine income generation with childcare responsibilities. Based on interviews with 20 ‘mumpreneurs’, we examined career narratives to show how these women described the transition to entrepreneurship and their experiences of this new mode of working. The findings suggest that the women weave a path between the discourses of intensive mothering and enterprise. Becoming self-employed was deemed preferable to being perceived as a housewife as it enabled identification with a discourse of intensive mothering, facilitating far greater engagement with children than was possible during previous corporate lives. However, the findings revealed tensions which required individualized strategies to address excessive working hours and constrain business growth.