Another fork in the road: the experiences of retired teachers and nurses living in Northeastern Ontario.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Canadian women born after the Second World War, between 1945 and 1964, were both \ncredited and criticized for their roles in challenging traditions and forging life pathways that were \ndifferent to those before them. In recent decades, this cohort has been entering their retirement \npaths. This qualitative study explored stories about how some women were living the transcendent \nstage of later life in rural and small towns in Northeastern Ontario. Using a feminist narrative \n \napproach, twenty-one primarily boomer women were interviewed by telephone, using semi- \nstructured questions. The women had retired from teaching or nursing, accomplished professional \n \ndesignations in their jobs, and lived in the target areas. Braun & Clarke’s (2022) reflexive thematic \nanalysis was followed to generate codes and themes. Ten themes emerged: 1) how do I feel at this \nstage of my life?, 2) it’s my life, my time., 3) where did my identity go?, 4) what do I do now?, 5) \nthe impact of gender roles on participants’ stories., 6) options for retirement and feelings about \nthis life event., 7) expectations for the next fork in the road., 8) connection and purpose., 9) the \nimportance of health-financial, mental and physical., and 10) let go, take the plunge. \nThe results of this study supported the literature regarding retirement pathways; however, \nthis group mainly identified with transitional or continuity models. Freedom to make choices, \nunencumbered by the rules of a job, resonated throughout the results. Data highlighted the \nimportance of community and family involvement for overall health and wellbeing. This resilient \ngroup determined that they would learn new things and adapt to ongoing physical and mental \nhealth issues through staying busy and maintaining relationships with family and friends. \nKey words: Women, Retirement, Baby Boomers, Professional, Northeastern Ontario, \nRetirement pathways.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".