Aligning Perspectives in Gender Mainstreaming
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This book brings together various threads of research in the field of gender mainstreaming. It aids in further supporting and understanding the role of gender in health and safety research, practice, and policy. It looks at gender mainstreaming as being recognised as key in cultivating sustainable worker health and working systems due to it being a central component of many international policy initiatives. This book deals with gender mainstreaming being advocated at a policy level, while focusing on the limited recognition and discourse on the issue of gender and its direct and indirect…mehr

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This book brings together various threads of research in the field of gender mainstreaming. It aids in further supporting and understanding the role of gender in health and safety research, practice, and policy. It looks at gender mainstreaming as being recognised as key in cultivating sustainable worker health and working systems due to it being a central component of many international policy initiatives. This book deals with gender mainstreaming being advocated at a policy level, while focusing on the limited recognition and discourse on the issue of gender and its direct and indirect association to workers' health in the field of occupational health and safety. This book addresses problems facing gender-sensitive policies and outlines and reflects upon current best practice principles and practices to support the development and implementation of policies, interventions, and research initiatives.

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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.