Belinda Steffan

Women in Work in Mid-Life

Value, Identity and Perceptions

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on a unique dataset of real women and their experiences of engaging in paid and unpaid work, Women in Work in Mid-Life explores the specific challenges that women in the UK workforce face, including women's health, pay inequality, gender bias, and the struggle to balance work and family life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 437g
• ISBN-13: 9781032574134
• ISBN-10: 1032574135
• Artikelnr.: 70437694

Autorenporträt

Belinda Steffan is a Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh Business School. She researches how psychological and sociological experiences of gender, age and health at work influence continued labour force participation, or specifically, how women work. She is particularly interested in individual differences within the organisational context of work.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Literature review 3. Research methods 4. Identity work
of the ageing body at work: shielding, capitalising and negative
self-affirmation 5. Successful ageing: healthy and economic ageing 6.
Navigating the 'older worker' label through perceptions of ageing 7.
Discussion of findings - Study 1 8. Study 2: Understanding Value as
Fairness 9. Limiations of the Studies 10. Further Research and
Recommendations 10. Appendices