Overview
- Explores the nature and trends of health inequalities and gender differences in the workplace
- Outlines the practices and principles underpinning gender sensitive health and safety management
- Introduces a comprehensive overview of a gender mainstreaming approach
Part of the book series: Aligning Perspectives on Health, Safety and Well-Being (AHSW)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- diversity management
- gender at work
- gender mainstreaming
- worker's health
- occupational health and safety
- wellbeing at work
- work and health balance
- workplace health behaviour
- occupational illness and disease
- the gender dimension
- menopause and work
- gender-sensitive occupational health and safety research
- gender inequality
- gender sensitive work interventions
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Aligning Perspectives in Gender Mainstreaming
Book Subtitle: Gender, Health, Safety, and Wellbeing
Editors: Juliet Hassard, Luis D. Torres
Series Title: Aligning Perspectives on Health, Safety and Well-Being
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53269-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53268-0Published: 16 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53271-0Published: 16 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-53269-7Published: 15 December 2020
Series ISSN: 2213-0497
Series E-ISSN: 2213-0470
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 208
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Sociology of Work, Human Resource Management, Health Psychology