Interferences between parenting and work among post-doctoral researchers
Based on the analysis of interviews with young researcher-parents, this article presents the differentiated effects of family life on the way individuals see and carry out their work. It studies how researchers consider work as the product of the meeting between a family configuration (material resources that are available for the organization of daily life, expectations regarding family life, family history) and a professional configuration (material and symbolic resources provided by the professional environment, professional history observed by individuals, perspective on the profession and chances of having a professional career). Stressing work/family interferences, the article encourages the articulation of the analysis of the objective interdependencies between these two living environments with the analysis of their subjective interstructurations.