Handbook on Well-Being of Working Women

Handbook on Well-Being of Working Women

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Connerley, Mary L. (Editor), Wu, Jiyun (Editor)
Summary:IX, 821 p. 57 illus.
text
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life,
Subjects:
Quality of life.
Psychology, Industrial.
Personnel management.
Quality of Life Research.
Work and Organizational Psychology.
Human Resource Management.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9897-6
Format: Electronic Book
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Introduction
  • Chapter. 1 Uncovering the Complexities of Women and Well-Being in the Workplace: An Introduction; Mary L. Connerley and Jiyun Wu
  • Part 2. Gender, social group hierarchy, and Well-Being of Working Women
  • Chapter 2. Workplace Discrimination and the Wellbeing of Minority Women: Overview, Prospects, and Implications; Gwendolyn M. Combs and Ivana Milosevic
  • Chapter. 3 Fat Women Need Not Apply: Employment Weight Discrimination Against Women; Lynn K. Bartels
  • Chapter. 4 Countering Heteronormativity; Lesbians and Well-Being in the Workplace; Helen Woodruffe-Burton
  • Chapter 5. “Women Like You Keep Women Like Me Down”: Understanding Intergenerational Conflict and Work-life Balance from a Discourse Perspective; Renee Guarriello Heath
  • Chapter 6. Sexual Harassment: Undermining the Wellbeing of Working Women; Kathryn J. Holland and Lilia M. Cortina
  • Chapter 7. Understanding Mental Disorders in Women in the Workplace to Mitigate Deleterious Effects; Wesley S. Parks, Paula K. Lundberg-Love, Cecily Luft, Aimee Stewart and Haley Peddy
  • Chapter 8. Women and Work Stress: More and Different; Astrid Richardsen, Laura E. M. Traavik and Ronald J. Burke
  • Chapter 9. The Gender Pay Gap and the Wellbeing of Working Women; Hilary M. Lips
  • Part 3. Women Leaders and Well-Being
  • Chapter 10. Gender Bias Against Female Leaders: A Review; Kim M. Elsesser
  • Chapter 11. Does the Presence of Women in Management Impact Gender Inequality?; Matt L. Huffman
  • Chapter 12. In the Company of Women: The Well-Being Consequences of Working With (and for) Other Women; Carol T. Kulik, Isabel Metz and Jill A. Gould
  • Chapter 13 Constrained by Emotion: Women, Leadership, and Expressing Emotion in the Workplace. Jacqueline S. Smith, Victoria L. Brescoll, and Erin L. Thomas
  • Chapter 14. The Purpose and Place of Mentoring for Women Managers in Organisations: An Australian Perspective; Lisa Catherine Ehrich and Megan Kimber
  • Chapter 15. French Women Entrepreneurs’Leadership Practices and Well-Being in a High Growth Context; Stephanie Chasserio, Corinne Poroli and Renaud Redien-Collot
  • Part 4. Professional Context and the Well-Being of Working Women
  • Chapter 16. Women in Medicine; Tracey LaPierre, Shirley Hill and Emily Jones
  • Chapter 17. The Relationship between Organizational Family Support and Burnout among Working Women at Healthcare Industry: Core Self-Evaluation as Moderator; Peng Wang, Teresa A. Wagner, Scott L. Boyar, Steven A. Corman and Ronald B. McKinley
  • Chapter 18. Still Alone at the Table? Women Working in Technology Organizations; Marilyn Drury
  • Chapter 19. Women Accountants in Practicing Accounting Firms: Their Status, Investments and Returns; Simeon O. Okpechi and Rachid Belmasrour
  • Chapter 20. Work-Family Balance for Women Lawyers Today: A Reality or Still a Dream?; Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay
  • Chapter 21. Knowledge Work and Flexible Working: Helping or Hindering Working Women?; Doris Ruth Eikhof
  • Chapter 22. Gender, Entrepreneurship, and Firm Performance: Recent Research and Considerations of Context; Susan Coleman
  • Chapter 23. Extreme Expatriation: The Effect of Location Factors and Masculine Environments on Women’s International Assignment Participation in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production; Susan Shortland
  • Part 5. Public Policy, Organizational Policy and Societal Influences and The Well-Being of Working Women
  • Chapter 24. Work-Life Policies, Programs, and Practices: Helping Women, Men, and Workplaces; Laura Sabattini and Faye J. Crosby
  • Chapter 25. The Gender-Career Estimation Gap; Lutz C. Kaiser
  • Chapter 26. Family and Labor Market Policies in Germany: The Well-being of Working Women; Jessica K. Camp, Eileen Trzcinski and Stella Resko
  • Chapter 27. Social Costs: The Career-Family Tradeoff; Bridgette Cram, Mohamad G. Alkadry and Leslie E. Tower
  • Chapter 28. An Exploration of Quality Part-Time Working in Europe, with a Focus on the UK Case; Clare Lyonette, Beate Baldauf and HeikeBehle
  • Chapter 29. Opting in: Women in Search of Well-Being; Ingrid Biese and Linda McKie
  • Chapter 30. The Well-Being of Working Women in Times of Economic Crisis and Recovery: Insights from the Great Recession; Janice Peterson
  • Chapter 31. Let Us Listen to the Voice of Women in Management in Spain in the 21st Century: A Longitudinal Study; Rosario Vázquez Carrasco, Ma. Eugenia López Pérez and Edgar Centeno
  • Chapter 32. Women in the Workplace: Feminism’s Potential Impact; Kendra Saunders
  • Part 6. Cross-cultural and country-specific context and the Well-Being of Working Women: A Global Perspective
  • Chapter 33. Women in the Workforce: A Global Snapshot; Betty Jane Punnett
  • Chapter 34. Are Education and Occupational Status Affecting Men’s and Women’s Satisfaction in Different Ways? A Cross-National Perspective on Gender Inequality; Mª del Mar Salinas-Jimenez, Joaquín Artes and Javier Salinas-Jimenez
  • Chapter 35. The Subjective Well-Being of Working Women in Europe; Eduardo Bericat
  • Chapter 36. Inequalities in Unpaid Work: A Cross-National Comparison; Janeen Baxter and Tsui-o Tai
  • Chapter 37. Work Satisfaction of Chinese Women; Hang Ye Ngo and Huimin Liu
  • Chapter 38. Working Women in Arab Countries: A Case for Cautious Optimism; Yusuf M. Sidani
  • Chapter 39. Work-Family Balance and the Well-being of Educated Women in Iran; Narjes Mehdizadeh
  • Chapter 40. Work, Family and Women’s Well-Being in Malaysia; Noraini M. Noor and Nor Diana Mohd Mahudin
  • Chapter 41. The Reality of Women on the Boards of Directors of Brazilian Companies: Seeking Insight and Solutions; Kellen Lazzaretti and Christiane Kleinübing Godoi
  • Chapter 42. Gendered Ideology, Male Dominance and Women’s Microcredit Participation in Rural Bangladesh; K. M. Rabiul Karim and Chi Kong Law
  • Chapter 43. Employment, Empowerment, and Spousal Violence on Women in Developing Countries; Yoo-Mi Chin
  • Chapter 44. Impact of HIV Related Stigma and Discrimination on Working Womenin Sub-Sahara Africa; Vincent Icheku
  • Part 7. Epilogue
  • Chapter 45. Feminist Eudaemonia: A Research Direction; Jiyun Wu and Mary L. Connerley.  .

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