Ethnography Paper

This is my Ethnography paper.

Ethnography: Pharmacy
For my ethnography paper I did my research on a female pharmacist. The central question I wanted to find out for this paper was if the field of pharmacy allowed women to have a balance with home and work. The reason I asked this particular question was because this is what I am majoring in and I wanted to just see firsthand if this job allowed women to have a balance in their lives. I also picked this question because I found the days we discussed this in class to be the most interesting to me. This is one topic that we have talked about that will affect me in the future. The different type questions I would need to ask her would be along the lines of how many days do you work a week, what time to you start working and get home from work. The investigations I would need to make would be to go and sit in one day and watch her work.
After thinking about my central question of if the pharmacy field allowed women to have a balance between home and work, I began to think about the different ways I will gather the information to answer my question. The ways I thought of were to go in to the hospital and watch her work from a whole day then I came up with a few questions to ask her about her job as a pharmacists. The questions I asked her were:
1.How many days a week do you work? Dr. Stowers answer was 3 days a week
2.How many hours a week to do you work? Her answer was 24 hours a week
3.Is it hard to be a full time pharmacist and be a mom? No, because I actually work less than a lot of people and still make more money than a lot of people.
4.How old were you when you got out of college and started your career? 26 years old when I got out of pharmacy school and then a few years later I had my daughter.
5.Is the pharmacy field good with letting you off for maturity leave? Yes, I got off as long as I wanted. That’s the good thing with pharmacy you can take off a year to be a mom and there is always a place for you when you get back.
During the time I was observing Dr. Stowers I got there when she did at 9:00 a.m. and she immediately began working. Her day consisted of following doctors and filling prescriptions and keeping the place in order. Since she is a full time pharmacist with her doctorate she has full control over the pharmacy in the local hospital. She was also able to answer phone calls from her family throughout the day and then at the end of the day she was able to get off and go pick up her kids from school. Dr. Stowers also only worked Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, to me this was a huge way she was able to spend more time with her family.
In my case of my research I found the question I asked to be true, she was able to have a balance between her work and her home and family. Things that could be missing from my research were that I only did my research over one pharmacist to where if I really wanted to test out this question I could research more pharmacists and see if there is a consistent balance in their lives. Anthropologists and sociologist could get more information about this issue by researching more pharmacists and ask more in depth questions. They could also observe them for more days then I was able to.