Balancing Work and Parenting Duties: A Qualitative Study of Chinese Female Entrepreneurs

Catherine Lin

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Abstract: In China, more and more women nowadays have received higher education and a significant proportion of these women are running their own business. This study seeks to examine the challenges that female entrepreneurs face when they try to balance their work and parenting duties as well as their coping strategies. This study is based on semi-structured interviews with seven female entrepreneurs who have parenting duties. All interviews were conducted during the spring period of 2022. Our results showed that female entrepreneurs faced significant physical and mental challenges while finding a balance between running their own business and their parenting duties. Many of them do not receive adequate social and family support. Our study also found that female entrepreneurs developed their own coping strategies such as blending parenting with work to meet the challenges. Findings from this study call for a more gender-equal society and more policies to support working mothers.

Date: 2022-06-01
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