Nineteenth International Conference on Knowledge, Culture, and Change in Organizations

Abstract

Career advancement has become a determining aspect of any educated woman’s profile, however, in many societies, patriarchy hinders women’s progress as it reigns over the societal territory and divides it into public and private spheres. These spheres unfold cultural assumptions and assign roles to the sexes privileging the public over the private, the fact that holds debilitating tasks to women that may stand in their way to full recognition and self-fulfillment in the public sphere. In the present work, special focus is attributed to the household (the private sphere in miniature) in an attempt, first, to particularly unveil the ideological construction of care work as an illustration of “women’s work” par excellence in the Algerian society, and second, to conceive pathways that allow a safer and balanced trajectory toward success for career women.