Betting on a work-family culture and leaving pregnancy discrimination behind

• Autor(a) principal: Anunciação, Maria Luísa de Sousa Cabral da
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/10288
• topic: Pregnancy discrimination; Work-family culture; Affective commitment; Discriminação de grávidas; Cultura laboral e familiar; Compromisso afectivo

This research deals with the influence of the organizational work-family culture on women’s perceived pregnancy discrimination and its affective commitment consequences. It was investigated (a) the effect of work-family culture on the perceptions of pregnancy discrimination that (b) in turn should influence the affective commitment of the working women. A total of 126 working women provided data on their perceptions of pregnancy discrimination, the organizational work-family culture and the affective commitment towards their workplace. The proposed model was tested using structural equation modeling (SEM) procedures and, overall, support a full mediation model in which organizational work-family culture is related to the perceptions of the pregnancy discrimination, which negatively impact the affective commitment towards their organization (χ2 (269) = 439.18; RMSEA = .071 ; CFI = .98; TLI = .98; WRMR = .93). These results make valuable contributions to the literature of pregnancy discrimination at the workplace, and to the organizational work-family culture as a decisive influence factor on pregnancy discrimination and consequently on the workers’ affective commitment.