Table 2 Major categories, sub-categories and sub-themes related to Iranian women’s job experience
From: Iranian superwomen's career experiences: a qualitative study
Main categories | Subcategories | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Contextual factors of job experience | Limited job opportunities for women | ||
Educational context (mindset formed in birthparents’ home) | |||
Obligation in getting a job and continuing it | |||
Freedom in getting a job and continuing it | |||
Personality characteristics | |||
Non-cognitive abilities | Spiritual intelligence | ||
Emotional intelligence | |||
Strategies adopted in solving job problems | Effective strategies | Benefiting from abundance mentality | Win–win thinking |
Use of environmental potentials | |||
Use of individual potential | |||
Having a vision and strategic planning | |||
Ineffective strategies | Benefiting from scarcity mentality | Lack of proper use of opportunities | |
Win-lose thinking | |||
Fear of risk | |||
Perceived consequences of employment | Psychological consequences | Positive consequences | Independence, self-esteem, happiness… |
Social consequences | Negative consequences | Feeling of jealousy, Lack of interest in life Feelings of guilt, Feeling of anger towards others, Feeling of inadequacy | |
Positive consequences | Social dignity | ||
Negative consequences | Pressures from multi-role expectations, Perceived gender pressures | ||