A Liberating Time Flexibility? A Gendered Approach of Temporal Commitment and Social Time Articulation among Start-up Founders
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2024
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Marion Flécher, « A Liberating Time Flexibility? A Gendered Approach of Temporal Commitment and Social Time Articulation among Start-up Founders », Revue des politiques sociales et familiales, ID : 10670/1.aspmn7
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Seeking to attract women, who are still a minority in the entrepreneurial world and particularly in the world of start-ups, discourses promoting entrepreneurship insist on the benefits of this type of activity in terms of temporal flexibility and work-life balance. Based on qualitative and quantitative data collected through interviews (n = 45) and questionnaires (n = 501) among start-up founders between 2017 and 2019, this article examines the effects of entrepreneurship’s temporal flexibility on professional gender equality. Behind the promotion of empowerment through entrepreneurship, this study highlights gendered uses of flexibility which, far from liberating women from issues of time articulation, tend to limit their professional time, when they do not reinforce their assignment to the domestic sphere.