{"id":16445,"date":"2014-03-03T15:10:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T20:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/?p=16445"},"modified":"2014-03-07T01:23:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T06:23:07","slug":"female-jobs-are-poorer-paid-less-flexible-and-more-stressful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2014\/03\/female-jobs-are-poorer-paid-less-flexible-and-more-stressful\/","title":{"rendered":"Female jobs are poorer paid, less flexible and more stressful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the SAGE Publications media release:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/night-shift-office.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15196\" alt=\"night shift office worker\" src=\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/night-shift-office.jpg\" width=\"192\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a>Jobs for women are poorer paid, less flexible, more stressful, <strong>and offer fewer promotion opportunities than those for men<\/strong>, a large international study has found.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers say that <strong>the results disprove the theory that women have voluntarily traded less high-powered jobs in order to have more flexibility for their responsibilities at home<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Haya Stier, of Tel Aviv University, and Professor Meir Yaish, University of Haifa, <strong>analysed survey data on the working lives of 8,500 men and 9,000 women in 27 industrialised countries<\/strong>, including the UK.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper published in the journal <em>Work, Employment and Society<\/em> they looked at how those surveyed responded to questions about their jobs, and found:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When asked if they or their employer decided at what time they started and ended work, how they organised their schedule, and whether they took time off work, <strong>men scored 0.148 points (15%) higher<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>On a scale of 1-5, <strong>on average men gave answers that were 0.215 points higher<\/strong> (8%) than women&#8217;s when asked about their income and opportunities for promotion.<\/li>\n<li>On a scale of 1-5, on average men gave answers that were 0.159 points (5%) lower than women&#8217;s when asked about how stressful and exhausting the work was.<\/li>\n<li>Men gave answers that were 0.084 (2 %) points higher than women&#8217;s when asked about how interesting they found their work, how independently they could work and how much scope they had to improve their skills.<\/li>\n<li>Men gave answers that were 0.062 points (2%) lower than women&#8217;s when asked about job security.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Only in the area of physical condition did men score their work worse, saying it was more physically arduous and dangerous, by 0.275 points (8%).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The findings show that women lag behind men on most dimensions of job quality,&#8221; say the researchers. &#8220;<strong>This result runs counter to the expectation that women&#8217;s occupations compensate<\/strong> for their low wages and limited opportunities for promotion by providing better employment conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The findings indicate that women enjoy hardly any advantage over men in the labour market. <strong>Women lag behind men on most employment dimensions: their jobs offer lower salaries and fewer opportunities for advancement, but also lower job security, worse job content, less time autonomy and worse emotional conditions<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The research &#8220;does not support the claim that women enjoy a more relaxed and convenient work environment to compensate for their lack of achievement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However the researchers also found that <strong>the more women in a profession or trade the closer their working conditions came to men&#8217;s<\/strong> in most aspects of work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Work, Employment and Society is published by SAGE and the British Sociological Association.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the SAGE Publications media release: Jobs for women are poorer paid, less flexible, more stressful, and offer fewer promotion opportunities than those for men, a large international study has&#8230; 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