Female Athletic Trainers: Work and Life Balance 1

What are your professional goals?

What are your personal goals?

Based upon your goals do you envision a lifelong career in athletic training?

Discuss if working in the athletic training profession provides a suitable working environment to achieve a balance.

What role does your gender play in your response?

What role does your current martial and family status play in your response?

What role does your personality play in your response?

Have you experienced challenges finding a balance between your personal and professional life? If so, What factors have contributed to the challenge? If not, why haven't you had challenges?

Has being a female AT influenced your experiences of work and life balance issues?

Do you have a support system that helps you maintain a healthy balance between your personal and professional life? Please describe your support system.

What personal strategies do you capitalize on to maintain or promote a balance between your personal and professional life?

What role does your family play in your ability to find a balanced life-style?

What role do your co-workers play in your ability to find a balanced life-style?

What role does your coaching staff play in your ability to find a balanced life-style?

What role does your supervisor play in your ability to find a balanced life-style?

Is your supervisor male or female?

Do they have a family of their own?

Would they be supportive of your family pursuits/needs?

What personal strategies do you utilize to sustain your professional enthusiasm?

Will this change once you have a family?

Will this change based upon your personal goals?

Describe for me how your work setting has influenced your professional commitment.

Do you believe, once you have a family, that you will have to make sacrifices personally and/or professionally? Please describe.

As a young female, have you had a role model/mentor, who has helped you row professionally? Please elaborate [why, what role they played, etc.].

Was your role model male or female?

In your opinion could having more female role models [those who remain in the profession with children] influence retention rates for other female ATs?

What are your professional goals?

What are your personal goals?

Discuss if working in the athletic training profession provides a suitable working environment to achieve a balance.

What role does your gender play in your response?

What role does your current marital and family status play in your response?

What role does your personality play in your response?

Have you experienced challenges finding a balance between your personal and professional life? If so, what factors have contributed to the challenge? If not, why haven't you had challenges?

Has being a female AT influenced your experiences of work and life balance issues?

What personal strategies do you capitalize on to maintain or promote a balance between your personal and professional life?

What role does your spouse play in your ability to find a balanced life-style?

What role do your co-workers play in your ability to find a balanced life-style?

What role does your coaching staff play in your ability to find a balanced life-style?

What role does your supervisor play in your ability to find a balanced life-style?

Is your supervisor male or female?

Do they have a family of their own?

Would they be supportive of your family pursuits/needs?

What personal strategies do you utilize to sustain your professional enthusiasm?

Will this change once you start a family?

Has this changed since you got married?

Describe for me how your work setting has influenced your professional commitment.

Do you believe, once you have a family, that you will have to make sacrifices personally and/or professionally? Please describe.

As a young female, have you had a role model/mentor, who has helped you grow professionally? Please elaborate [why, what tole they played, etc.].

In your opinion could having more female role models [those who remain in the profession with children] influence retention rates for other female ATs?

What, if any, organizational policies are in place to help you as a female AT with children to help maintain a balanced life-style?

Do you feel that since starting your family you have had to make sacrifices personally and/or professionally? Please describe.

Do you feel as though you will be able to persist in your current position with your current job and family responsibilities?

What are your professional goals? Have they changed since you've started a family?

Discuss if working in the athletic training profession provides a suitable working environment to achieve a balance.

What role does your gender play in your response?

What role does your current martial and family status play in your response?

What role does your personality play in your response?

Describe your personality.

Have you experienced challenges finding a balance between your personal and professional life? If so, what factors have contributed to the challenge? If not, why haven't you had challenges?

Has being a female AT influenced your experiences of work and life balance issues?

Has a female with children influenced your experiences of work and life balance issues?

Discuss how your work/life balance has changed form being a single professional to being a married professional to being married with children? Were the challenges different at each life stage for you?

What personal strategies do you capitalize on to maintain or promote a balance between our personal and professional life?

What role does your family play in your ability to find a balanced life-style?

What role do your co-workers play in your ability to hind a balanced life-style?

What role does your coaching staff play in your ability to hind a balanced life-style?

What role does your supervisor play in your ability to find a balanced life-style?

Is your supervisor male or female?

Do they have a family of their own?

What personal strategies do you utilize to sustain your professional enthusiasm?

How has this changed since you started a family?

Describe for me how your work setting has influenced your professional commitment.

Have you had a role model/mentor, who has helped you grow professionally? Please elaborate [why, what role they played, etc.].

In your opinion could having more female role models [those who remain in the profession with children] influence retention rates for other female ATs?