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childcare with their husbands’ or other family members, etc. did not enjoy
full benefits and opportunities at work. Decision makers have often assumed
that mothers are inadequate for challenging positions due to their household/
home responsibilities. “There were 2 or 3 names [of women] in the hat,” said
one of the workers in Carli and Eagly’s research, and they said, ‘I don’t want
to talk about her because she has children who are still home in these [evening]
hours.’ They don’t mention this matter about the men on the list, many of
whom also have children in that age group.”!”’ Thus, childbearing as a specif¬
ic female “problem,” says Nora Séllei, comes from the fact that our culture
tends to take the mother’s primary care role for granted. The professor’s own
experience shows that male colleagues are almost never asked about the num¬
ber of their children, nor how they reconcile their family and career.’”* Thus,
basically, the traditional conflict of roles — career or family — specifically affects
women.
The family relations of men and women in Hungary are overwhelmingly
still governed by the traditional division of roles, because the burden of house¬
keeping and childcare is for the most part a female responsibility in Hungar¬
ian society, even to this day. The attitude studies of the last decades!” have
confirmed that the perception of family and household roles has decisively
evolved along the traditional norms and men are still considered heads of the
family."
This is closely related to another problem. According to Beáta Nagy "for
example, in the presentation of a family-friendly organisation, women are not
presented as fully capable employees, but ones requiring help from the work¬
place, emphasising the notion that women with children need constant assis¬
tance in the organisation, as they will otherwise not be able to perform. [...]
On the other hand, regardless of whether they are taking flexible work or
part-time jobs, women are placed on a ‘mommy track’, meaning they are sec¬
ondary workers, less committed to their jobs...”"'
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Itis worth mentioning how important the partner is from a career perspective “The long-term
effects of spousal support and personality on the professional success of respondents, that is,
the special appearance of the crossover phenomenon, was analysed through Australian pan¬
el data by Solomon and Jackson (2014). The indicator of subjective success was satisfaction
with work and the objective success rate was income and progress. Their data showed that
regardless of whether a male or female subject was examined, the personality of the spouses
had a significant effect on the performance at the workplace (Nagy, B.: Ki áll a sikeres nő
mögött?, socio.hu. Tarsadalomtudomanyi Szemle, 2016/2. 123.).
Eagly-Carli: Women and the Labyrinth.
Sellei: Professzornök, 270.
Blaskó, Pongrácz, guoted in Neményi, M.: Szülői feladatok €s csalädfenntartäs — amikor az
anya a fő kenyérkereső, socio.hu. Társadalomtudományi Szemle 6(2), 2016, 246.
130 Neményi: Szülői feladatok, 243-263.
131 Nagy: Szervezet és nemek, 64.
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