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Women, Work, and Health

Stress and Opportunities

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  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. Marianne Frankenhaeuser

    1. Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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  2. Ulf Lundberg

    1. Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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  3. Margaret Chesney

    1. Prevention Sciences Group, School od Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA

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Part of the book series: Springer Series on Stress and Coping (SSSO)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  3. Work and Family

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
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    2. The Forms of Women’s Work

      • Robert L. Kahn
      Pages 65-83

    3. Coping with Role Overload

      • Camille Wortman, Monica Biernat, Eric Lang
      Pages 85-110

    4. The Relationship between Women’s Work and Family Roles and Their Subjective Well-Being and Psychological Distress

      • Rosalind C. Barnett, Nancy L. Marshall
      Pages 111-136

  4. Work Load and Cardiovascular Health

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
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    2. Women, Work-Related Stress, and Smoking

      • Margaret A. Chesney
      Pages 139-155

    3. The Effect of Job Demands, Job Control, and New Technologies on the Health of Employed Women

      • Suzanne G. Haynes
      Pages 157-169

    4. Occupational Stress and Blood Pressure

      • Thomas G. Pickering, Gary D. James, Peter L. Schnall, Yvette R. Schlussel, Carl F. Pieper, William Gerin et al.
      Pages 171-186

    5. On Cardiovascular Health in Women

      • Töres Theorell
      Pages 187-204

  5. Interaction between Women’s Work and Reproductive Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205
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    2. Reproductive Technologies, Women’s Health, and Career Choices

      • Kerstin Hagenfeldt
      Pages 207-223

    3. Women, Work, and Menopause

      • Philip M. Sarrel
      Pages 225-237

    4. Premenstrual Distress

      • Aila Collins
      Pages 239-254

  6. Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 255-255
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    2. Summary and Implications for Future Research

      • Cary L. Cooper
      Pages 257-261
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About this book

Until recently, studies of women's health received scant research attention in the context of the overall magnitude of research conducted on health. Even for health issues that affect both men and women, most research has been limited to male subjects, leaving a large gap in our knowledge base concerning women's health. Finally, the decade of the 1990s is ushering in a shift in this inequity. In 1990 the U.S. National Institutes of Health issued a compelling report citing the lack of sufficient research on women's health as a major gap in our knowledge, and a mandate has been issued to add women as study subjects in research or to document why they have not been included. Such directives will undoubtedly lead to a much-needed burgeoning of research activities in the area of women's health as we approach the twenty-first century. Despite limited research resources, however, there have been steady, scientifically rigorous voices in the wilderness for the last several years, and many of the best investigators are represented in this volume. These workers have led the vanguard in exploring psychosocial factors that are likely to differentially affect women's and men's health. For example, women and men engage in social roles that often differ, if not in quantity, then certainly in quality. Sex differences in role expectations, environmen­ tal qualities, role burdens related to the domains of work and family, and abilities to adapt to and cope with stressful situations may have a distinctive impact on health.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

    Marianne Frankenhaeuser, Ulf Lundberg

  • Prevention Sciences Group, School od Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA

    Margaret Chesney

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Women, Work, and Health

  • Book Subtitle: Stress and Opportunities

  • Editors: Marianne Frankenhaeuser, Ulf Lundberg, Margaret Chesney

  • Series Title: Springer Series on Stress and Coping

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3712-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1991

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-43780-9Published: 31 July 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-6651-5Published: 29 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-3712-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 271

  • Topics: Public Health, Epidemiology, Sexual Behavior, Psychotherapy and Counseling

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