Table 2.

Emerged subthemes, themes, and main themes

Subtheme	Theme	Main Theme
Mothers’ choice of employment	Mother’s perspective regarding out-of-home employment	Selection, management, and adjustment of various roles to play social roles
Contribution to the family economy
Facing organizational obstacles to continue employment	Incompatibility between
Mothers’ beliefs regarding barriers to work continuity	pregnancy and social role
Mothers’ exposure to occupational responsibilities	Mother’s management
Mothers’ encounters with co-workers’ expectations	strategies to play roles
Mothers’ attempts to select and play roles
Husbands’ preferences regarding Mothers’ employment	Husband’s authority regarding
Husbands’ performance to deal with maternal employment	mother’s employment
Husbands’ approach to mothers’ earnings