“You Will Not Know Where I Live”: Gender Variations in School Counselors' Strategies for Maintaining Work-Life Boundaries (Poster 18)

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Abstract

School counselors face many competing and conflicting demands on their time, which can result in exhaustion, deterioration of their personal life, devaluing students, and eventually burnout. Engaging in career-sustaining strategies such as maintaining work and personal time boundaries can assist counselors in navigating their work demands. Although school counseling in a highly gender-segregated occupation relying heavily on emotional labor like other feminized occupations, we know little about gender variations in how men and women school counselors navigate setting work-life boundaries. Drawing on interviews with 20 school counselors, we identify specific strategies that all counselors use, but find that the extent to which men and women enforce their work-life boundaries, varies.

Authors

• Megan Holland Iantosca, University at Buffalo - SUNY

• Mary Kate Metzger, University at Buffalo - SUNY