scholarly journals Reduction in sleep disturbances at retirement: evidence from the Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Health

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (10) ◽  
pp. 2155-2173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera van de Straat ◽  
Loretta G. Platts ◽  
Jussi Vahtera ◽  
Hugo Westerlund ◽  
Piet Bracke
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Sleep Disturbances ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Work Hours ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Civil Status ◽  
The Impact

AbstractAlthough retirement involves a radical change in daily activities, income, social roles and relationships, and the transition from paid work into retirement can, therefore, be expected to affect sleep, little is known about the effects of old-age retirement on changes in sleep disturbances, and how the impact of retirement may vary by gender, age and prior working conditions. This study modelled reported sleep disturbances up to nine years before to nine years following retirement in a sample of 2,110 participants from the Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Health (SLOSH). Sleep disturbances over the retirement transition were modelled using repeated-measures regression analysis with Generalized Estimating Equations (GEE) in relation to gender, age at retirement, working patterns (night work, full-time/part-time work), control over work hours, and psychological and physical working conditions. The analyses controlled for civil status, education level, income obtained from registers and self-rated health. Retiring from paid work was associated with decreased sleep disturbances. Greater reductions in sleep disturbances were reported by women, as well as by participants who retired before age 65 years, who were working full-time, who lacked control over their work hours and who had high psychological demands. These results, suggesting that old-age retirement from paid work is associated with reductions in disturbed sleep, pose a challenge for governments seeking to increase retirement ages.

scholarly journals Condições de trabalho de enfermagem e adoecimento: motivos para a redução da jornada de trabalho para 30 horas

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 178-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanda Elisa Andres Felli
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Working Condition ◽  
Work Hours ◽  
Work Absenteeism ◽  
Absence From Work ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Reflexive Analysis

O texto tem por objetivo fazer uma análise reflexiva sobre as condições de trabalho e adoecimento dos trabalhadores de enfermagem, determinadas por jornadas superiores a 30 horas. Partindo da análise do contexto do trabalho de enfermagem, o texto analisa as condições de trabalho e as suas implicações no adoecimento dos trabalhadores. Traz como consequências a diminuição da capacidade para o trabalho, o absenteísmo, a elevação de custos dos afastamentos, o impacto sobre o perfil de morbi-mortalidade dos trabalhadores e as implicações sobre a qualidade da assistência. Conclui-se que é necessário controlar a insalubridade, a periculosidade e a penosidade desse trabalho.Descritores: Enfermagem, Saúde do Trabalhador, Condições de Trabalho, Jornada de Trabalho, Morbidade.Nursing working condition and sickness: reasons why to reduce the work journey to 30 hoursThe text aims to do a reflexive analysis about the working conditions and sickness of nursing workers, determined for journeys exceeding 30 hours. Based on the analysis of the context of nursing work, the text examines the working conditions and their implications in illness among workers. Also, the text brings as consequences the decreased capacity to work, absenteeism, higher costs of absence from work, the impact on morbidity and mortality profile of workers and the implications on the quality of care. It is concluded that it is necessary to control the insalubrity, dangerousness and painfulness of this work.Descriptors: Nursing, Occupational Health, Working Conditions, Work Hours, Morbidity.Condiciones de trabajo de enfermería y enfermedad: motivos para la reducción de jornada para trabajar 30 horasEl texto tiene como objetivo analizar reflexivamente sobre las condiciones de trabajo y enfermedades de los trabajadores de enfermería, determinado por turnos que excedan 30 horas. Con base en el análisis del contexto del trabajo de enfermería, el texto analiza las condiciones de trabajo y sus implicaciones en la enfermedad entre los trabajadores. Trae consecuencias como la disminución de la capacidad de trabajo, ausentismo, costos más altos de las ausencias, el impacto en lo perfil de morbilidad y mortalidad de los trabajadores y las implicaciones en la calidad de la atención. Se concluye que es necesario controlar la insalubridad, peligrosidad y doloroso trabajo.Descriptores: Enfermería, Salud del Trabajador, Condiciones de Trabajo, Día de Trabajo, Morbidad.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment relationships and development of social partnership in the Russian Federation

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-35
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Anatolievich Dovganenko
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Social Partnership ◽  
Employment Relationships ◽  
The Social ◽  
Coronavirus Infection ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Low Wages

Before the outbreak of the pandemic and a radical change in the social and labor situation in the country, the main sources of the beginning of confrontations between workers and employers were non-payment of wages, low wages and violations of working conditions. In the context of the spread of the coronavirus infection, the top three included "reductions in workers", displacing "low wages". These reasons determined the key and main problems faced by the majority of the country's citizens.

scholarly journals The dual impact of gender and the influence of timing of parenthood on men’s and women’s career development: Longitudinal findings

2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea E. Abele ◽  
Daniel Spurk
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Career Success ◽  
Transition To Parenthood ◽  
Work Hours ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
First Child ◽  
Agency And Communion ◽  
The Impact

This study investigated the impact of gender, the gender-related self-concept (agency and communion), and the timing of parenthood on objective career success of 1,015 highly educated professionals. Hypotheses derived from a dual-impact model of gender and career-related processes were tested in a 5-wave longitudinal study over a time span of 10 years starting with participants’ career entry. In line with our hypotheses we found that the communal component of the gender self-concept had an impact on parenthood, and the agentic component influenced work hours and objective career success (salary, status) of both women and men. Parenthood had a negative direct influence on women’s work hours and a negative indirect influence on women’s objective career success. Women who had their first child around career entry were relatively least successful over the observation period. Men’s career success was independent of parenthood. Sixty-five percent of variance in women’s career success and 33% of variance in men’s career success was explained by the factors analyzed here. Mothers with partners working full time reduced their work hours more than mothers with partners not working full time. A test for a possible reverse influence of career success on the decision to become a parent revealed no effect for men and equivocal effects for women. We conclude that the transition to parenthood still is a crucial factor for women’s career development both from an external gender perspective (expectations, gender roles) and from an internal perspective (gender-related self-concept).

scholarly journals Maternal work hours in early to middle childhood link to later adolescent diet quality

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. 1861-1870 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianghong Li ◽  
Therese O'Sullivan ◽  
Sarah Johnson ◽  
Fiona Stanley ◽  
Wendy Oddy
Keyword(s):  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Diet Quality ◽  
Work Hours ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Food Groups ◽  
Linear Regression Models ◽  
Maternal Work ◽  
Adolescent Diet ◽  
Full Time Employment ◽  
The Impact

AbstractObjectivePrevious studies on maternal work hours and child diet quality have reported conflicting findings possibly due to differences in study design, lack of a comprehensive measure of diet quality and differing ages of the children under investigation. The present study aimed to prospectively examine the impact of parental work hours from age 1 year to age 14 years on adolescent diet quality.DesignMultivariate linear regression models were used to examine independent associations between parents’ work hours at each follow-up and across 14 years and adolescent diet quality at age 14 years. A diet quality index was based on the international literature and Australian recommendations, consisting of six food groups and nine nutrients.SettingPerth, Western Australia.SubjectsChildren (n 1629) participating in the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine) Study.ResultsCompared with children of mothers in full-time employment, children of mothers who were not employed in early childhood up to age 5 years had a higher average diet quality score at age 14 years, independent of maternal and family socio-economic status. Across 14 years the number of years the mother worked full time and increasing average weekly hours were associated with lower diet quality. Father's work hours had little association with adolescent diet quality.ConclusionsHaving a mother stay at home in early to middle childhood is associated with better diet quality in adolescence. Support may be beneficial for families where the mother returns to full-time employment before the child reaches 8 years of age.

scholarly journals Constructing the Boundaries of Retirement for Baby-Boomer Women: Like Turning Off the Tap, or Is It?

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 40-58
Author(s):  
Deborah K. Van den Hoonaard
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Baby Boomer ◽  
Work Force ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Baby Boomer Generation ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact

We are at a unique point in history when an unprecedented number of women are beginning to retire. Earlier work has suggested that women have few identity concerns in retirement because they had less attachment to the labor force. In contrast, women of the baby-boomer generation are the first cohorts to have participated in significant numbers in the paid work force since the institutionalization of retirement. Using in-depth, semi-structured interviews, this article explores baby-boomer women’s process of leaving the paid work force and queries what retirement means to them. It focuses on the eroding boundary between work and retirement and issues of personal and social identity for the research participants. When women retire, they navigate a number of key boundaries between full-time, paid and other work and between their own transitions and the transitions of others in their lives. The women’s social identity reflects their experience of the intersection of retirement, aging, and gender. The themes that permeate the interviews include the loss of a primary identity without having a new positive identity to claim, being retired as a conversation stopper, and experiencing the invisibility that often comes with aging. Developing a unique identity and finding new meaning as a retiree is a challenging process for baby-boomer women as they negotiate “lingering identities” to avoid crossing the identity boundary from professional to retired. The article uses the words of the research participants to explore how they construct boundaries between work and retirement, the extent of their permeability, and the impact of women’s relationships and identity on those boundaries.

scholarly journals What Comes after Caring? The Impact of Family Care on Women’s Employment

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (9) ◽  
pp. 1387-1419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrike Ehrlich ◽  
Katja Möhring ◽  
Sonja Drobnič
Keyword(s):  
Family Care ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Shared Frailty ◽  
Part Time ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Extensive Family

Previous research has shown that women providing family care tend to decrease paid work. We take the opposite perspective and examine how current and previous family care tasks influence women’s likelihood to (re-)enter employment or to increase working hours. Family care is defined as caring for an ill, disabled or frail elderly partner, parent, or other family member. Using German Socio-Economic Panel data, we apply Cox shared frailty regression modeling to analyze transitions (1) into paid work and (2) from part-time to full-time work among women aged 25–59. The results indicate that in the German policy context, part-time working women providing extensive family care have a lower propensity to increase working hours. When family care ends, the likelihood that part-time working women change to full-time does not increase. Homemaking women’s likelihood of entering the workforce is not influenced by either current or previous family care tasks.

scholarly journals Interactions between care-giving and paid work hours among European midlife women, 1994 to 1996

2003 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. KATHARINA SPIESS ◽  
A. ULRIKE SCHNEIDER
Keyword(s):  
Labour Force ◽  
Work Hours ◽  
Northern Europe ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Care Givers ◽  
Care Giving ◽  
Northern European ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Weekly Work

This paper uses data from the European Community Household Panel surveys of 1994 and 1996 to study the association between changes in care-giving and changes in weekly work hours. Our sample comprises women aged 45–59 years who participated in the labour force in at least one of the two years studied. Controlling for country variation, we find significant relationships between starting or increasing informal care-giving and changes in weekly work hours. No such association is found however among women terminating a care-giving commitment or reducing their care hours. Starting care-giving significantly reduces work hours for women in northern European countries (except Ireland). By contrast, women in southern Europe and Ireland respond to an increase in care-giving hours by a smaller increase or a higher decrease in work hours than non care-givers. In summary, our results show that the impact of care-giving on adjustments of weekly work hours is asymmetrical and that it differs in southern and northern Europe.

scholarly journals Impact of working conditions on faculty teaching:

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Berlin ◽  
DoMonique Brock
Keyword(s):  
Student Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Small Sample Size ◽  
Student Learning Outcomes ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Faculty Teaching ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Time Faculty

The following exploration examined the impact of working conditions on faculty teaching for full-time faculty and non-tenure track faculty within an academic department at a large Midwestern university to determine whether employment status and working conditions potentially impacted student learning outcomes. Questions asked of participating faculty focused on factors related to, or influencing, teaching that may improve or hinder student learning. Factors such as available resources, interaction with department administrators and other faculty, job satisfaction, work-life integration, and mentorship were explored through written surveys and one-on-one interviews. Twelve faculty, out of a target population of 33, provided insight as to concerns or issues they felt impeded or supported teaching efforts. Although the exploration contained a small sample size, department administrators implemented changes to address faculty concerns to reduce “disconnects” and issues mentioned by faculty members. Primary changes occurred around part time faculty input on curriculum development and interactions with department administrators and full time faculty. While still ongoing, initial feedback is positive and indicates faculty are adapting to the changes. Further work is necessary to examine individual feelings of worth and value, as well as exploring actual student learning outcomes across courses.

scholarly journals P079 Effect of sleepwear fibre type on menopausal sleep quality – Study protocol and preliminary data

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. A46-A47
Author(s):  
X Li ◽  
M Halaki ◽  
T Mahar ◽  
S Ropert ◽  
A Ireland ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Relative Humidity ◽  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Sleep Disturbances ◽  
Moisture Absorption ◽  
Severity Index ◽  
Vasomotor Symptoms ◽  
Hot Flush ◽  
Menopausal Women ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Introduction Vasomotor symptoms and sleep disturbances are common in menopausal women. Different fabric types affect thermal comfort through moisture absorption and thermal insulation. This study examined the impact of cotton and wool sleepwear on menopausal women’s sleep quality. Methods This is a randomized, crossover, repeated-measures and triple-blinded trial comparing the sleep quality and vasomotor symptoms of healthy menopausal women between cotton and wool sleepwear at 30°C, 50% relative humidity. Participants undergo 6 laboratory visits. After a screening visit and a familiarization night, participants are randomized to 4 nights (2 nights in cotton and 2 nights in wool sleepwear) during which polysomnography and actigraphy recordings are taken including objective hot flush events, room temperature and relative humidity measurements, as well as subjective questionnaires on clothing comfort, mood and vasomotor symptoms. Results Eleven participants (age 51.2±4.7 years, BMI 26.8±2.9 kg.m-2, Insomnia Severity Index 11.1±5.5) completed all six visits so far. Reasons for exclusion: 3 didn’t have vasomotor symptoms; 1 on HRT, 5 had severe sleep disturbances, 3 on medications, 4 had diabetes, 1 asthma, and 1 had BMI>30. All sleep-related outcomes are pending analysis (blinding). Discussion Recruitment is a major study challenge. Many participants found it hard to arrange a time to attend overnight studies due to family/work commitments. The COVID-19 pandemic changed people’s attitude as some were hesitant to attend the laboratory. Menopause transition status is an important time during women’s lifespan. Effective management, e.g., through appropriate sleepwear, would be helpful to improve menopausal women’s symptom and quality of life.

scholarly journals By Default: The Origins of Gendered Inequalities in Pandemic Parenting

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica McCrory Calarco ◽  
Emily Victoria Meanwell ◽  
Elizabeth M. Anderson ◽  
Amelia Knopf
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Work Hours ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Dual Earner ◽  
Educational Gaps ◽  
At Home

The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically increased families’ childcare responsibilities, disproportionately affecting mothers and undermining their careers and wellbeing. Using two waves of interviews with 77 mothers of young children, we examined why mothers—especially in dual-earner, different-gender couples—took on more pandemic parenting. We found that pre-pandemic gendered structures of paid work led many families to lean on mothers by default. First, within-couple gaps in job types, pay, and work hours led some mothers to do more childcare to protect partners’ work as primary earners. Second, educational gaps within couples led some mothers to do more as the only parent able to work fully remote. Third, pre-pandemic childcare gaps within couples led children (and partners) to rely more heavily on mothers, even when both partners were home full-time. We discuss the implications for research on gender inequalities in paid work and parenting and for policy efforts to address gender inequalities at home.

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