The holiday and work experiences of women with young children

Autor:	Penny Davidson
Rok vydání:	1996
Předmět:	media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development Work (electrical) If and only if Quality time Tourism Leisure and Hospitality Management Perception Contradiction Relevance (law) Meaning (existential) Construct (philosophy) Psychology Social psychology media_common
Zdroj:	Leisure Studies. 15:89-103
ISSN:	1466-4496 0261-4367
DOI:	10.1080/026143696375648
Popis:	This paper looks at the holiday experiences of women with young children. It attempts to unfold the meaning of that experience, looking particularly at the contradiction of a work-filled event being accepted as a holiday experience. Women with young children do not have uniform holiday experiences or perceptions of those experiences. Some women will define the experience as a holiday only if they are away from family obligations; other women will consider the relative rest and the opportunity of being able to have quality time as a mother or partner as meaningful and worthwhile. The two key features of the holiday for women with young children were the reduction in pressure and the sharing of time in key relationships and roles. However, the overall scenario was one of little support for women to construct a holiday and an absence of dialogue regarding the right to holidays. As work and relationship are an integral part of the holiday experience, the findings question the relevance of the continued use of...
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