Micro Entrepreneur’s Experience of Motherhood: Women, Work and Family

• Main Authors: WANG, Yu-Shan, 王于杉
• Other Authors: LIN, Ya-Jung
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/51175265277017160694

碩士 === 亞洲大學 === 社會工作學系碩士班 === 96 === This research probes into the entrepreneurs’ experiences of motherhood, and how they practice the motherhood in work and family? The purposes of this study are: first, to explore the motherhood of female entrepreneurs; second, to offer some suggestions on Taiwan government administrative system about female entrepreneurs. This research is based on the perspective of gender division of labor , and takes symbolic interactionism as research framework. The research fields are Taizhong, Wufeng, Caotun, Dali, Zhushan, Lugu, Zhanghua. We apply in-depth interview as research method, and fifteen female entrepreneurs and two male entrepreneurs as interviewers. The conclusions are： first, female entrepreneurs’ social expectations of motherhood were influenced by their original family . Second, they considered that the ideal motherhood should be beared the whole house work. And third, under the context of Taiwanese culture, female entrepreneurs regonized that family was more important than work.