| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 217 pages) |
| Series |
Aligning perspectives on health, safety and well-being |
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Aligning perspectives on health, safety and well-being.
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| Contents |
On Equal Terms? Gendering Labour Markets, the Organisation of Work, and the Well-Being of Employees -- Part I: Working Conditions -- Classification of Work: An Approach to the Exploration, Understanding, and Prevention of Gender Differences in Working conditions -- Psychosocial Working Conditions for Women and Men in Industries with Different Types of Production and Gender Composition: Sweden, 1991-2017 -- A Multilevel Approach to Understanding Job Demands and Resources in Healthcare -- Managing care work in times of austerity: gendered working conditions for managers -- Part II: Organization of work -- Invisible workers: on digitalisation in home care work from a gender and technology perspective -- Organising auditing, person-centered care and competence in Swedish residential care homes -- Gender differences in the impact of work hours on health and well-being -- The interplay betwen gendered norms and new public management strategies in the shaping of homecare services' work environments -- Part III. Violence and conflicts -- 'Don't let it get to you'. Gendering workplace violence in disability services in Sweden -- The concept of intragroup conflict in relation to gender and well-being in women-dominated work |
| Summary |
This edited volume discusses how deeply entrenched gender norms in work environments, even in welfare economies, can affect women's health in an adverse way. The volume provides a broad overview of contributing factors. It derives specific answers from case studies in Sweden, a welfare state where women's labour market participation is very high, but where horizontal and vertical gender segregation in work is also one of the highest in the world. Women tend to work in occupations that are heavily dominated by women. An issue in women-dominated occupations is a considerably higher sickness absence than men, with the highest rates being in human service and care occupations. This volume adds to the literature on health and wellbeing in women-dominated professions and workplaces through studying the work environment, organizational changes, digitalization, threats, violence and conflict, and work conditions that could contribute to healthier workplaces for women. In addition, it points to the need for deeper gender analysis in work norms, and using both quantitative and qualitative approaches. It is of interest to social and behavioural scientists studying work, gender and health, as well as HR professionals and policy makers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 26, 2021) |
| Subject |
Women -- Employment -- Health aspects
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Women employees -- Health and hygiene
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Industrial hygiene.
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Industrial hygiene
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Women employees -- Health and hygiene
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Women -- Employment -- Health aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Keisu, Britt-Inger, editor
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Tafvelin, Susanne, editor
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Brodin, Helene, 1973-
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| ISBN |
3030777340 |
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9783030777340 |
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