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Gender and Serious Leisure Careers
The purpose or thesis of the article," Gender and serious leisure careers: A case study of women sea cadets" by Jayne Raisborough, was to examine whether women's serious leisure career as sea cadets could not be defined as being linear and progressive because of restrictions placed upon by it by gender power relations both within the serious leisure world itself and in the worlds beyond it such as those related to friends, families, and/or professional careers. The influence of gender and its meaning was thought to be powerful and unmistakable when it came to women's career as sea cadets.
The methods used for this research study included the following: having "insider-outsider" access into the explored serious leisure world, collecting extensive field notes, and conducting tape-recorded interviews with forty white active female sea cadets ranging in age from 20-55. Having "insider-outsider" access meant that due to her past personal experience as a sea cadet the author had an "insider's" understanding of the organization while being an ex-member made her an "outsider" free from the organization's formalities and constraints.
The author's findings were that gender did in fact greatly influence female participation both within and beyond the serious leisure career. For example the organization's "Female Cover Rule" policy, which was based on the assumption that women were naturally good caregivers, relegated older cadets to looking after the needs of younger female cadets. This policy caused many cadets both male and female to doubt that women could generally advance within the organization's hierarchy. On the other hand in relation to outside social worlds revolving around friends and family, female cadets were able to forgo traditional roles associated with femininity, such as housecleaning and shopping, due to the demanding work schedules of their serious leisure career.
References
Raisborough, Jayne (2007) "Gender and serious leisure careers: A case study of women sea cadets" Journal of Leisure Research, Vol. 39(No. 4), 686-704.
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