Siene is the first female-and oldest person-to be hired as a firefighter in her city. She focuses on this unique set of identities when she is at work, but when she leaves work and goes home, Siene leaves her firefighter identity behind and fluidly switches into her relational identity role as a stepmom. Which pattern of social identity strategy does she employ?

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Siene employs compartmentalization, which involves separating different social identities and focusing on them in different contexts, as she separates her identity as a firefighter from her identity as a stepmom and switches between them depending on the situation.

Siene Is the First Female-And Oldest Person-To Be Hired as a Firefighter