To date, research on women’s entrepreneurship has largely been focused on how gender roles may constrain the venture process, or cause role conflicts for women pursuing an entrepreneurial career. While acknowledging the validity of such perspectives, the purpose of this paper is to apply a broader perspective of career-life development, answering the call for a more nuanced and embedded understanding of an entrepreneurial career.,This paper presents a constructionist, relational analysis of the experiences of 13 Canadian women who started their business following the life transition to motherhood. Interview data were coded using grounded theory methods.,The conceptual model captures the influence of the mothering role in shaping the transition into entrepreneurship, illuminating the reciprocal relational processes of context, choice and outcomes in the career-life development of mother entrepreneurs.,While this is a small sample, and findings are not generalizable, application of relational theory of career-life offers implications for supporting women’s transition to, and continued success in, entrepreneurship.,Career theory offers practical application to the management of mother entrepreneurs’ career-life development.,To date, there has been limited application of career theory to entrepreneurship, particularly to understanding the gendered, relational career-life experiences of mother entrepreneurs.

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选择母亲和企业家精神：关系型的职业生涯过程

迄今为止，关于女性企业家精神的研究主要集中在性别角色如何限制创业过程，或对追求企业家职业的女性造成角色冲突的方面。在承认这些观点的正确性的同时，本文的目的是运用更广阔的职业生涯发展视角，回应对企业家职业更细微和内在的理解的要求。本文提出了一种建构主义的关系分析13位加拿大妇女在从母亲过渡到母亲后开始创业的经历。访谈数据使用扎实的理论方法进行编码。概念模型捕获了母性角色在塑造向企业家身份的过渡过程中的影响，阐明了上下文的相互关系过程，