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KMID : 0606120070130030329
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Korean Journal of Child Health Nursing
2007 Volume.13 No. 3 p.329 ~ p.337
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The Lived Experience of Working Women Raising Children
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Lee Nae-Young
Koo Mi-Jee
Kim So-Hee
Kim Young-Mi
Jang Kyoung-Oh
Kim Young-Hea
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study was done to describe the essential structure of the lived experience of working women raising children.
Method: Data were collected from 10 employed women with children who were under 2 years of age. The analysis of the data was done using the phenomenological analytic method suggested by Colaizzi (1978).
Results: In this study, 6 essential themes were extracted: ’knowing by intuition child-rearing is difficult’, ’having guilt-conscious of not being able to perform duties as a mother’, ’hard work of maintaining two jobs’, ’Lost self’, ’realizing that one has become amother’, ’thirsting for a social support system’.
Conclusion: With a rapidly increasing number of working women, the significance of this study in the field of nursing is in understanding the child-rearing experience of working women. The findings indicate the need for a systemic and emotional support system for working women raising children.
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KEYWORD
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Working women, Child Rearing, Life Experiences, Qualitative Research
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