Running head: INTERVIEW AND REPORT 1

Interview and Report: Current Paid and Unpaid Work

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Interview and Report: Current Paid and Unpaid Work

Background of the Interview

I interviewed a transgender woman who was recommended to me by a friend. She had paid and

unpaid work experiences since she was a parent at home and an employee in a formal working

environment. Before interviewing, I review the ethical obligations with her concerning

anonymity, information confidentiality, and the right to refuse to answer questions. Using the

attached consent form, I discussed the interview content information together with her to ensure

she adequately understood the topic. The following are the questions that I engaged with

throughout the interview while observing the above principles and values.

List of Questions to the Interviewee

1. Where did you grow up, and what was the structure of your nuclear and extended family?

2. What were your life experiences during childhood that affected your adulthood behaviour

and character?

3. Do you have a friend cycle? What is it like?

4. What have you so far learned about the quality of life and components of happiness?

5. What are your academic and training qualifications?

6. Have you experienced any form of difficulties in accessing post-secondary education of

your choice?

7. During your learning and career choice, did you receive moral and encouragement

support from your parents, relatives, and friends?

8. How did you spend your transition moment from post-secondary education to

occupational setting?
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9. How did you secure your current occupational setting, and does it relate to your past

employment?

10. What is the nature of your current job? Are you satisfied, or you have plans for changing

the setup?

11. What are your reasons and perceptions of working?

12. On a typical day, what are your working conditions?

13. What are your experiences with expectations from gender performances, nontraditional

jobs, and masculine work environments?

14. What are your experiences as a single parent on unpaid (home chores and

responsibilities) and paid work (occupational setting)?

15. How do you organize your household work in terms of delegating and personally sharing

the sacrifice?

16. How do your balance between the household responsibilities and work obligations to

ensure that both serve expected purposes?

17. What types of advancements and changes do you think would support the unpaid work

(at home)?

18. What are your beliefs in hiring domestic labour workers? Have you had any past or

present experiences of hiring home labour?

19. Is the government doing enough in terms of social and economic support to broaden up

equality and fair distribution of resources in various regions?

20. What values and principles do you hold paramount for equity and justice at the formal

and informal workplaces?

The Interview Report

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The interview began with an oral history of the woman to present her feminist

background. The language and communication used during the young age of a person shape the

gender conformity. She highlighted having been born from a family background that believed in

masculinity, perhaps since she is the only daughter while the rest of her siblings are men. She

used to do hard chores and was mostly trained on how to be personally independent. Her style of

communication depicted the women's forms of nonverbal and verbal interaction, which

mandated the avoidance of using patriarchal models of holding a conversation whereby the talks

generally are centred on upholding the male gender above the female. She has a friend cycle that

she values as much as the relatives; this perceptive created an opportunity to share a similar

background of norms to enhance openness during the interaction and conversations. Instituting

this approach created a perception of overindulgence into her matters, which extended her trust

towards me.

Applying the listening skills to both the narrator and oneself created opportunities for open-

ended questions whereby the interviewee was to share her opinions, perceptions, experiences and

beliefs. I quickly noticed the areas of confusion and personal discomfort during the interview and

shifted the discussion to another light concern. She experienced some real challenges during her

transition from post-secondary education to work setting since she had selected a career choice

that was more conversant with men more than women due to the aspect of technicality. She was

turned down from numerous job opportunities, mainly due to the gender role perceptions created

over a prolonged period in Canada. She stayed for quite some period before securing an

occupational setting that would sustain and develop her life financially and psychologically. Her

primary satisfaction in getting a more technical job came from the urge to prove that she could

do more beyond the ideologies and philosophies created concerning women's inferiority.
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The interviewee currently works at a manufacturing plant, and she has been promoted to a

supervisory position with a higher pay grade. She works at the section of manual operations, and

she leads and manages men. Her current occupational setting has brought about personal

satisfaction since she can now fulfill her psychological aspirations of venturing into technical

jobs. She engaged more in masculinity, which has played critical roles in structuring her

transgender aspect. However, her past employment was faced with social and physical

challenges since she was placed at a position that required more of her physical energy and

frequent interaction with men. Henceforth, she saw the challenges as opportunities for personal

advancement and showcase capabilities and potentials that served her right and expanded her

scope and own principles in terms of commitment to tasks and integrity during delivery of

services.

The main reasons as to why she works were easily related to her psychological and economic

aspirations. Based on her background, setting she was more than focused on providing the

exceptional is possible despite the stereotyping perceptions created by historians and scholars

concerning gender roles affiliations. With inspiration, she proved her commitment to paid work.

However, she acknowledged her weakness in balancing between paid and unpaid work since she

valued the formal sector more than household chores. In an aspiration to manage this occurrence,

she supported the hiring of domestic labour. This uptake was the primary solution she provided

for supporting work at home. She has had numerous experiences with home employees, whereby

she has tried baby care centers, personal house assistants and relative assistance. From these

episodes, she recommended an involving hiring process for domestic labour, whereby an

individual should participate in selecting the house assistant in terms of asking psychological

questions and proving their manual housework skills. She also highlighted her weakness in
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organizing household work and, therefore, opted to hire a professional domestic labourer who is

conversant with chores planning. Based on the interviewee's quote, "Formal work setting that

earns me a leaving is ideally important since I can be able to pay for home services if I can

advance in paid work," she values employment more than her household duties despite the

historical perceptions of women and their gender roles affiliation. During the olden days in

Canada, women were believed to be more of household tools whereby they were supposed to

manage their homes and organize the unpaid work while men were the one morally accepted to

work and support their family. However, based on this interview, the woman is more than

convinced concerning categorization built on personal capabilities rather than societal moral and

value structures.

The interview also portrayed a sense of symbol representation when addressing the query

of her experience with gender performance expectations. She highlighted having challenges

interacting with other females, mainly due to her affiliations with the masculinity world. The

majority of her female friends avoid interacting with her on an official basis due to her stringent

structure of formality in addressing matters concerning career growth, personal development and

work restrictions. Her transgender aspect has been considered as a disability by many, including

her first-time bosses, thus affected her accessibility to some of the privileges and incentives at

the workplace. However, based on her statement, "Nothing is earned by just sitting around and

feeling sorry for yourself, you have to adopt the phrase 'man-up' and address challenges head-

on," she soldiered on and made significant steps of growth and industrious recognition.

Brief Summary of the Components of the Interview

I believe one of the areas where the work was well done is in the social engagement with the

interviewee. I began asking general personal questions that adequately prepared the interviewee
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for open-ended queries. Secondly, I instituted the aspect of patient anonymity by explaining to

her the principles and values that I tend to uphold her confidentiality and decision-making. I also

informed her about the considerations she had towards the right of not answering specific

questions and lastly involved her in selecting the avenue, which was convenient for the

interview. However, next time, one of the things I would do differently is exercising the

principles of authority and interpretation during an interview. I didn't create a chance of

interpretive conflict, which plays significant roles in expounding the interviewee's symbolic

aspects as per the oral narrative interview.

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