Women’s Lived Experience in Contemporary Conjugality: An Analysis with Iramuteq

Abstract

This study reports the results a master’s degree research that aimed to understand the lived experience of middle-class women in contemporary conjugality. Data were collected using, a semi-structured interview with a triggering question to guarantee greater robustness and reliability in the analysis, data were processed using Iramuteq free software, which generated five different classes that were later named and carefully analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The results indicate changes in the lives of women after motherhood, as well as the way spouses share household and child care activities. Moreover, they revealed the conflicts and ambivalences between socially established demands regarding feminine roles and these woman´s lived experiences in contemporary conjugality.

Keywords:
Women; Contemporary conjugality; Gender roles; Iramuteq