Overview
- First volume to consider hormonal changes in relation to occupational safety and health
- Presents a comprehensive assessment of women’s work across their life span
- Acknowledges that women are a work resource and require adjustments and accommodations
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Introduction: Women and Work
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Women in Developing Economies: Exploring Work Choices and Resourcefulness
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Challenges, Choices and Constraints
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Balancing Work: Women’s Choices and Their Lives Outside Work
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Women’s Life Changes and Well-Being at Work
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Keywords
- Biological Rhythms
- Feminisation of Poverty
- First-time Mother
- Glass Cliff
- Hormonal Changes Throughout Working Lives
- Maternal Employment
- Menopause
- Menstruation as a Work Stressor
- Mother-daughter Relationship
- Resourceful Women
- Transition to Parenthood
- Women’s Choice for Work Patterns
- Women’s Contributions to the Workforce
- Work Roles
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Roxane L. Gervais has worked in diverse organisations and at present, she is a Senior Psychologist at the Health & Safety Laboratory in the United Kingdom. In her role, she researches and promotes solutions to work-related issues. This research covers stress and well-being at work and this aspect of her research has led to her facilitating training on work-related stress and well-being as well as undertaking stress audits within organisations. Her research interests include also assessing women over the life-course, especially with respect to their work patterns and practices, along with those other organisational practices, such as work-life balance, engagement, resilience, and organisational change processes that allow a more holistic view of today’s workforce. Due to the changing work environment that includes globalisation and a stronger focus on diversity, her research includes generational differences as well as other diversity issues. She has presented these aspects of her research at international conferences and contributes to her profession by editing papers for three journals and two international conference committees. As well, Roxane volunteers with one of her professional bodies, the British Psychological Society, as she to wants to assist in ensuring that both the science and practice of occupational psychology is maintained and reinforced. She gained her PhD at the University of Hull.
Prudence Millear completed her PhD from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in 2010. Her doctoral research programme focused on the benefits and effects of individual and workplace resources on well-being, mental health and work engagement in the Australian workforce. She joined the University of the Sunshine
Coast as a Lecturer in Psychology in early 2011, as an ongoing position. Prudence’s research focuses on how individuals are actively involved in constructing their own lives, in particular, the importance of personal resources, such as optimism and self-efficacy, acting with workplace resources to promote well-being and work engagement. Her research has a particular focus on the intersection of work and family roles across the lifespan. She is interested in women’s engagement in the paid workforce, from the important role of childcare provision, to the consequences of menopause on women’s work lives. In addition, her research is framed through the lens of successful aging and how the characteristics of persons drive their experiences and behaviours to experience a full and happy life. Bringing together the resources of individuals with the resources of their work and family roles will enable better understanding of resilient well-being, better mental health, and continued engagement in life’s tasks.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Exploring Resources, Life-Balance and Well-Being of Women Who Work in a Global Context
Editors: Roxane L Gervais, Prudence M. Millear
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31736-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-31734-2Published: 10 June 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81109-3Published: 30 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-31736-6Published: 03 June 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 276
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Gender Studies, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Quality of Life Research, Quality of Life Research, Human Resource Management