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Exploring African women's roles and experiences as co-breadwinners and homemakers: a work–family entanglement perspective

Purpose This paper examines how professional African women experience work–family entanglement and the strategies they employ to manage their intertwined roles as co-breadwinners and homemakers. It aims to extend work–family entanglement theory beyond low-income contexts by foregrounding the lived realities of middle-class professional women across multiple African countries. Design/methodology/approach The study adopts a qualitative approach, drawing on semi-structured interviews with 29 women across Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Tunisia. Purposive and snowball sampling were used to recrui…