Employed women and the way they balance their business and private obligations - an example of women from Donja Stubica

Ovaj rad bavi se zaposlenim ženama te načinom na koji one usklađuju svoje poslovne obaveze s privatnim i/ili majčinskim obavezama. U suvremenom hrvatskom društvu sve veći broj žena je zaposlen, ali unatoč tome, njihove se obaveze u kućanstvu nisu smanjile. Drugim riječima, dolazi do dvostrukog opterećenja s kojim se zaposlene žene moraju nositi. Stoga je svrha ovog istraživanja metodom polustrukturiranog intervjua dobiti uvid u neposredna iskustva i vrijednosti tri generacije zaposlenih žena u kontekstu zaposlenja te usklađivanja istog s privatnim životom i obavezama u kućanstvu. Rezultati ovog istraživanja uspoređeni su s rezultatima istraživanja Tomić-Koludrović (2005) koja se bavila razmatranjem položaja žena u razdoblju tranzicije u Hrvatskoj. Na temelju usporedbe rezultata iz oba istraživanja zaključuje se da žene pokazuju sve modernije vrijednosti po pitanju zaposlenja, raspodjele rodnih uloga te vlastitog položaja u suvremenom društvu.This paper deals with employed women and the way they balance their job duties with their private and/or motherhood obligations. In contemporary croatian society more and more women enter the workforce, although their household obligations haven't decreased. In other words, it leads to the double burden with which employed women have to deal with. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to gain insight into immediate experiences and values of three generations of employed women within the context of employment and balancing their private life and household obligations with their work duties, using the method of semi-structured interviews. The results of this research have been compared with the results of the Tomić-Koludrović research (2005), which examined the position of women during the transition in Croatia. The comparison based on the results of the two researches reveals that women show more modern values concerning employment, distribution of gender roles and their own status in modern society