Gender disparities in health: strategic selection, careers, and cycles of control.

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• Personal Author:
  Chermack K ; Moen P
• Description:
  This article proposes a dynamic model of the intersections between gender, health, and the life course incorporating processes of strategic selection--of roles, relationships, and behavior. Men and women make decisions within a tangled web of multilayered, often contradictory, and frequently outdated institutional contexts of opportunity and constraint. Both their decisions and the institutions shaping them reflect prior as well as ongoing socialization and allocation mechanisms. These institutionalized scripts and regimes tend to reproduce gendered biographical paths around two central life foci: paid work (or careers) and unpaid family work (or careers). The gendered nature of occupational and family-care paths, in turn, produces patterned disparities in a constellation of health-related resources, relationships, and risks, as well as feelings of mastery and control. We call for research charting alternative constellations of these gendered health careers, their antecedents, temporal patterning, and consequences. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Family Men Mental Health Occupational Health Safety Women Workplace
• Keywords:
  Workers; Behavior; Employees; Work-operations; Work-organization; Work-practices; Job-analysis; Men; Women; Workplace-studies; Psychological-responses; Attitude; Families
• ISSN:
  1079-5014
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Minnesota ; Nebraska ; Oregon ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 7
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  60
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20042158
• Citation:
  J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2005 Oct; 60(Spec Iss 2):S99-S108
• Contact Point Address:
  Phyllis Moen, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, 909 Social Sciences, 267 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455
• Email:
  phylmoen@umn.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2006
• Performing Organization:
  Portland State University
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050901
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Gerontological
• End Date:
  20081130
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/248206/cdc_248206_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]