It's `give and take'
研究分析了26位女性在产假期间对就业和职业机会的感受，发现鼓励与沮丧两组女性在感知目标冲突和压力上一致，但在相互依赖和谈判策略上存在差异。
To examine maternity leave as a gendered conflict management process, we analyzed a sample of interviews (from a larger data set of 102 interviews) with 26 women who reported feeling discouraged ( n = 15) or encouraged ( n = 11) about their employment status and career opportunities at the times of their leaves. Whereas these two groups of women converged on perceptions of a) incompatible (individual and organizational) goals and b) increased stress, they diverged on perceptions of a) interdependence, and b) use of negotiation strategies. Although this study is exploratory, findings indicate the need for additional research on perspective taking and influence tactics as ways of handling potential gendered conflict interactions for female workers and their bosses.