@article{ART003332822},
author={Ahn, Jaehee},
title={A Qualitative Study on the Career Transitioning of Career-Interrupted Women},
journal={아시아여성연구},
issn={1225-9241},
year={2026},
volume={65},
number={1},
pages={279-316}
TY - JOUR
AU - Ahn, Jaehee
TI - A Qualitative Study on the Career Transitioning of Career-Interrupted Women
JO - 아시아여성연구
PY - 2026
VL - 65
IS - 1
PB - Research Institute of Asian Women
SP - 279
EP - 316
SN - 1225-9241
AB - This study analyzes the careers of career-interrupted women in South Korea not as a linear event or a result-oriented outcome such as disruption-return, but as a process of career transitioning-a dynamic reconstruction of career changes within the interaction between structural constraints and agency. To this end, in-depth interviews were conducted with five career-interrupted women and three counselors participating in the career interruption prevention program at a Women’s New Job Center in Incheon. Also the study employs thematic analysis to examine the contextual backgrounds, constraining factors, and strategic adjustments inherent in this process. The findings are as follows: First, the conditions for career transitioning were shaped by biographical transitions, the reconfiguration of time and space, and critical awareness regarding the crisis of work sustainability and the risk of occupational fixation. Second, a gap between the intention to move and actual execution was created by temporal and economic constraints, occupational segregation (job fixation), and substantial barriers in exercising institutional rights. Third, the participants managed the risks of career transitioning through strategies such as balancing current job maintenance with career exploration, strategically accumulating resources, and the cognitive reconstruction of the meaning of success and expectation levels. This study conceptualizes this state as ‘suspended career transitioning.’ By redefining career transitioning as a repetitive process of exploration, preparation, and adjustment rather than a single event, this research expands the result-oriented analysis of existing career interruption studies. These results suggest that employment policies for career-interrupted women need to shift beyond simply increasing re-employment rates toward establishing a structural support system that enables the continuous process of career transitioning.
KW - career-interrupted women;career transitioning;suspended career transitioning strategy;interaction between structure and agency;career sustainability
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Ahn, Jaehee. (2026). A Qualitative Study on the Career Transitioning of Career-Interrupted Women. 아시아여성연구, 65(1), 279-316.
Ahn, Jaehee. 2026, "A Qualitative Study on the Career Transitioning of Career-Interrupted Women", 아시아여성연구, vol.65, no.1 pp.279-316.
Ahn, Jaehee "A Qualitative Study on the Career Transitioning of Career-Interrupted Women" 아시아여성연구 65.1 pp.279-316 (2026) : 279.
Ahn, Jaehee. A Qualitative Study on the Career Transitioning of Career-Interrupted Women. 2026; 65(1), 279-316.
Ahn, Jaehee. "A Qualitative Study on the Career Transitioning of Career-Interrupted Women" 아시아여성연구 65, no.1 (2026) : 279-316.
Ahn, Jaehee. A Qualitative Study on the Career Transitioning of Career-Interrupted Women. 아시아여성연구, 65(1), 279-316.
Ahn, Jaehee. A Qualitative Study on the Career Transitioning of Career-Interrupted Women. 아시아여성연구. 2026; 65(1) 279-316.
Ahn, Jaehee. A Qualitative Study on the Career Transitioning of Career-Interrupted Women. 2026; 65(1), 279-316.
Ahn, Jaehee. "A Qualitative Study on the Career Transitioning of Career-Interrupted Women" 아시아여성연구 65, no.1 (2026) : 279-316.
