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Women, Work, and Coping : A Multidisciplinary Approach to Workplace Stress.
Title:
Women, Work, and Coping : A Multidisciplinary Approach to Workplace Stress.
Author:
Long, Bonita C.
ISBN:
9780773564350
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (353 pages)
Series:
Critical Perspectives on Public Affairs ; v.4

Critical Perspectives on Public Affairs
Contents:
Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Introduction -- PART ONE: OVERVIEW OF WOMEN AND WORK -- 1 Asymmetric Changes in Men's and Women's Roles -- 2 Women's Lives Complete: Methodological Concerns -- 3 Implications for Employment Intervention and Policy -- PART TWO: EMPLOYED WOMEN IN CONTEXT -- 4 Women in Management: Power and Powerlessness -- 5 Patterns of Cultural Awareness: Coping Strategies for Women Managers -- 6 Examining Gender in Organizational Relationships and Technological Change -- PART THREE: COPING RESOURCES: STRESS MODERATORS -- 7 Stress, Coping, and Social Support among Women Managers -- 8 Social Support and Coping of Employed Women -- 9 Marriage Matters: Young Women's Health -- 10 Perceived Control and Employed Men and Women -- PART FOUR: APPRAISALS AND COPING STRATEGIES: STRESS MEDIATORS -- 11 Cognitive Appraisals and Coping with Stress -- 12 Evaluations of What's at Stake and What I Can Do -- PART FIVE: WOMEN'S WAYS OF COPING: RESEARCH AND THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS -- 13 Neglected Methodological Issues in Employment Stress -- 14 A Theoretical Integration of Women, Work, and Coping -- Author Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Abstract:
Until recently, theories and research about job stress and ways of coping have been based primarily on men's experience. Women's experience of stress and coping has remained unexplored, despite studies which show that women are confronted with more and different work-related stressors than men.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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