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Aligning Perspectives in Gender Mainstreaming: Gender, Health, Safety, and Wellbeing (Aligning Perspectives on Health)

Aligning Perspectives in Gender Mainstreaming: Gender, Health, Safety, and Wellbeing (Aligning Perspectives on Health)

Current price: $191.99
Publication Date: December 16th, 2020
Publisher:
Springer
ISBN:
9783030532680
Pages:
208
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Description

Chapter 1. Gender, work, and health: Some introductory thoughts (Juliet Hassard and Luis D. Torres).- Chapter 2. Creating inclusion to leverage workforce diversity from a work characteristics perspective (Janna Behnke, Sonja Rispens & Evangelia Demerouti).- Chapter 3. Work-life balance and gender: Challenging assumptions and unravelling complexity (Almuth McDowall & Gail Kinman).- Chapter 4. Gender, work and health inequalities (Viviana Rodr guez and Luis D. Torres).- Chapter 5. Pregnancy-related Stigma in the Workplace and Psychological Health: Is there a Relationship? (Juliet Hassard, Ieva Gruzdyte, Lana Delic, Vanessa Hewitt, and Louise Thomson).- Chapter 6. Gender equality in the workplace: Key driver of well-being, business performance and sustainability (Diana Guti rrez & Andrea Casta o).- Chapter 7. Gender-sensitive interventions in the workplace: Examples from practice (Roxane L. Gervais).- Chapter 8. Addressing gender inequality through Corporate Social Responsibility: A review of public governance in Latin America (Luis D. Torres, Aditya Jain and Stavroula Leka).- Chapter 9. Menstrual leave: Good intention, poor solution (Sally King).- Chapter 10. Transgender employees: Workplace impacts on health and well-being (T. Alexandra Beauregard, Jonathan E. Booth and Lilith A. Whiley).- Chapter 11. Aligning perspectives and mainstreaming gender at work (Luis D. Torres and Juliet Hassard).

About the Author

Dr Juliet Hassard is an Associate Professor of Occupational Health Psychology in the Centre for Organizational Health and Development at the University of Nottingham, UK. Previously, she was Lecturer in Occupational Health Psychology at Birkbeck University of London where she is also Deputy Director of the Centre for Sustainable Working Life. Her primary research interests are threefold. First, the development of interdisciplinary research to further understand the link between the social organization of work and employee health and wellbeing. Second, the integration of biomedical and psychosocial models to more fully understand gender and associated issues of diversity within the workplace and social patterning of health inequalities. Finally, the promotion and protection of mental health at work by designing and managing health-enhancing working systems and management practices. . She has published extensively in the field of occupational health psychology and has previously received funding from the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, the Economic and Social Research Council, and the British Health and Safety Executive. Dr Luis D. Torres is Assistant Professor in Organisational Behaviour, Business & Society at the Nottingham University Business School, UK. Previously, he was Assistant Professor at Nottingham University Business School China. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability, academic member of the Business and Human Rights Scholars Association, and part of the Executive Committee of the European Academy of Occupation Health Psychology (EAOHP). He is also a member of the Rights Lab, the world's first large-scale research platform for ending modern slavery, at the University of Nottingham. With over 10 years of academic and industry experience in China, UK, Chile, and Spain, he is interested in the broad area of corporate responsibility and sustainability. Key areas of research and practice are public policy and responsible business practices, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) strategic integration and reporting, and business and gender equality.