scholarly journals Consequences of Chronic Non-Cancer Pain in adulthood. Scoping Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Rocío Cáceres-Matos ◽  
Eugenia Gil-García ◽  
Sergio Barrientos-Trigo ◽  
Ana María Porcel-Gálvez ◽  
Andrés Cabrera-León
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Family Functioning ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Surgical Interventions ◽  
Spectrum Disorders ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Anxiety Depression ◽  
The Impact

OBJECTIVE: To examine and map the consequences of chronic pain in adulthood. METHOD: Documents addressing the impact of chronic pain on the psychological and social spheres of people suffering from chronic pain, published in Spanish and English between 2013 and 2018, were included. Those who addressed pharmacological treatments, chronic pain resulting from surgical interventions or who did not have access to the full text were excluded. Finally, 28 documents from the 485 reviewed were included. RESULTS: Studies show that pain is related to high rates of limitation in daily activities, sleep disorders and anxiety-depression spectrum disorders. People in pain have more problems to get the workday done and to maintain social relationships. Chronic pain is also associated with worse family functioning. CONCLUSIONS: This review shows that limitations in the ability to perform activities of daily living, sleep, psychological health, social and work resources and family functioning are lines of interest in published articles. However, knowledge gaps are detected in areas such as the influence of having suffered pain in childhood or adolescence, the consequences of non-fulfillment of working hours and gender inequalities.

scholarly journals The Impact of Past Pandemics on Economic and Gender Inequalities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michal Brzezinski
Keyword(s):  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Wealth Inequality ◽  
The Other ◽  
Swine Flu ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact

This paper estimates how previous major pandemic events affected economic and gender inequalities in the short- to medium run. We consider the impact of six major pandemic episodes – H3N2 Flu (1968), SARS (2003), H1N1 Swine Flu (2009), MERS (2012), Ebola (2014), and Zika (2016) – on cross-country inequalities in a sample of up to 180 countries observed over 1950-2019. Results show that the past pandemics have moderately increased income inequality in the affected countries in the period of four to five years after the pandemic’s start. On the other hand, we do not find any robust negative impacts on wealth inequality. The results concerning gender inequality are less consistent, but we find some evidence of declining gender equality among the hardest hit countries, as well as of growing gender gaps in unemployment within the four years after the onset of the pandemic.

On Gender, Labor, and Inequality

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Milkman
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Women Workers ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Women's Labor ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact

The author's groundbreaking research in women's labor history has contributed important perspectives on work and unionism in the United States. This book presents four decades of the author's essential writings, tracing the parallel evolutions of her ideas and the field she helped define. The book's introduction frames a career-spanning scholarly project: the interrogation of historical and contemporary intersections of class and gender inequalities in the workplace, and the efforts to challenge those inequalities. Early chapters focus on the author's pioneering work on women's labor during the Great Depression and the World War II years. The book's second half turns to the past fifty years, a period that saw a dramatic decline in gender inequality even as growing class imbalances created greater-than-ever class disparity among women. The book concludes with a previously unpublished essay comparing the impact of the Great Depression and the Great Recession on women workers.

scholarly journals The Impact of Past Pandemics on Economic and Gender Inequalities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michal Brzezinski
Keyword(s):  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Wealth Inequality ◽  
The Other ◽  
Swine Flu ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact

This paper estimates how previous major pandemic events affected economic and gender inequalities in the short- to medium run. We consider the impact of six major pandemic episodes - H3N2 Flu (1968), SARS (2003), H1N1 Swine Flu (2009), MERS (2012), Ebola (2014), and Zika (2016) - on cross-country inequalities in a sample of up to 180 countries observed over 1950-2019. Results show that the past pandemics have moderately increased income inequality in the affected countries in the period of four to five years after the pandemic's start. On the other hand, we do not find any robust negative impacts on wealth inequality. The results concerning gender inequality are less consistent, but we find some evidence of declining gender equality among the hardest hit countries, as well as of growing gender gaps in unemployment within the four years after the onset of the pandemic.

scholarly journals RELAÇÕES DE TRABALHO E DESIGUALDADES DE GÊNERO NA INDÚSTRIA TÊXTIL E DE CONFECÇÕES DO NORDESTE

Caderno CRH ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 020030
Author(s):  
Elaine Bezerra ◽  
Roseli De Fátima Corteletti ◽  
Iara Maria de Araújo
Keyword(s):  
Women Workers ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Clothing Industry ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Sexual Division Of Labor ◽  
First Case ◽  
Conditions De Travail ◽  
Dominant Society ◽  
And Gender

<p style="margin-bottom: 0.35cm; line-height: 100%;" align="justify">O objetivo deste artigo é analisar duas realidades de trabalho marcadas pela flexibilidade e precariedade, e com presença de uma força de trabalho intensiva de mulheres, na Região Nordeste do Brasil. A primeira, envolve mulheres que atuam como costureiras externas em facções domiciliares do Polo de Confecções do Agreste Pernambucano. Na segunda, temos o protagonismo feminino interno à produção têxtil no município de Jardim de Piranhas-RN. A divisão sexual do trabalho apresenta uma centralidade em ambas as experiências, seja reforçando os lugares clássicos que homens e mulheres ocupam na produção e na reprodução, seja apresentando questões novas. Foram realizadas visitas e entrevistas nos dois contextos produtivos, o que permitiu um contato com as experiências de trabalho das mulheres. No primeiro caso, o trabalho domiciliar significa a busca por autonomia e liberdade, no qual temos também a entrada dos homens na atividade de costura. No segundo, as mulheres tornam-se proprietárias de teares e a presença dos homens ainda é pequena. No entanto, esses fatores não repercutiram positivamente nas desigualdades de gênero, uma vez que as tarefas domésticas permanecem inalteradas e, mesmo com as longas jornadas de trabalho, elas não percebem as condições desiguais.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.35cm; line-height: 100%;" align="justify"> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.35cm; line-height: 100%;" align="justify">WORK RELATIONS AND GENDER INEQUALITIES IN THE NORTHEAST TEXTILE AND CLOTHING INDUSTRY</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.35cm; line-height: 100%;" align="justify">The aim of this article is to analyze two realities of work, marked by flexibility and precariousness and with an intensive workforce of women in the northeastern region of Brazil. The first involves women seamstresses in household factions of the Confections Pole of the Agreste of Pernambuco State. In the second, we have the female protagonism within the textile production in the municipality of Jardim de Piranhas-RN.The sexual division of labor is central to both experiences, either by reinforcing the classic places that men and women occupy in production and reproduction, or by presenting new issues.Visits and interviews were carried out in the two productive contexts, which allowed contact with the labor experiences of women. In the first case, home work means the search for autonomy and freedom, where we also have the entry of men in sewing. In the second, women become owners of looms and the presence of men is still small. However, these factors did not have a positive impact on gender inequalities, since domestic chores remain unchanged and even with long working hours, women workers do not perceive themselves as people generated in an oppressive and dominant society and in unequal conditions at work.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.35cm; line-height: 100%;" align="justify">Keywords: Textile and clothing industry. Female work. Gender inequalities. Informality. Precarious work.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.35cm; line-height: 100%;" align="justify"> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.35cm; line-height: 100%;" align="justify">RELATIONS DE TRAVAIL ET INÉGALITÉS DE GENRE DANS L’INDUSTRIE NORD-EST DU TEXTILE ET DES VÊTEMENTS</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.35cm; line-height: 100%;" align="justify">L’objectif de cet article est d’analyser deux réalités du travail, marquées par la flexibilité et la précarité et avec une main-d’œuvre intensive de femmes dans la région nord-est du Brésil. Le premier concerne les femmes couturières des factions ménagères du Pôle Confections d’Agreste de l’état de Pernambuco. Dans le second, nous avons le protagonisme féminin au sein de la production textile dans la municipalité de Jardim de Piranhas-RN. La division sexuelle du travail est au cœur des deux expériences, soit en renforçant les places classiques qu’occupent les hommes et les femmes dans la production et la reproduction, soit en présentant de nouvelles problématiques .Des visites et des entretiens ont été réalisés dans les deux contextes productifs, ce qui a permis un contact avec les expériences de travail des femmes. Dans le premier cas, le travail à domicile signifie la recherche d’autonomie et de liberté, où l’on a aussi l’entrée des hommes dans la couture. Dans le second, les femmes deviennent propriétaires de métiers à tisser et la présence des hommes est encore faible. Cependant, ces facteurs n’ont pas eu d’impact positif sur les inégalités entre les sexes, car les tâches domestiques restent inchangées et même avec de longues heures de travail, femmes qui travaillent ne se perçoivent pas comme des personnes générées dans une société oppressive et dominante et dans des conditions de travail inégales.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.35cm; line-height: 100%;" align="justify">Mots-clés: Industrie textile et habillement. Travail féminin. Inégalités entre les sexes. Informalité. Travail précaire.</p>

Water, poverty and gender: review of evidences from Nepal, India and South Africa

Water Policy ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 5 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 503-511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhawana Upadhyay
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Irrigated Agriculture ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Gender Participation

Access to water in equitable manner and the improved management of water are imperative to sustainable development, poverty alleviation and biodiversity preservation. Despite much research on gender and natural resources management, there have been only a handful of studies on gender and water, especially those trying to link the two with poverty issues. This paper seeks to fill this gap specifically by looking at the linkages among gender, water and poverty in terms of gender participation in irrigated agriculture and irrigation institutions. The main objective of the study is to examine gender participation in irrigated agriculture and irrigation institutions and to analyze the impact of irrigation projects on men and women. The study approach has been a qualitative and quantitative analysis of primary and secondary data. Key findings reveal a considerable degree of gender inequalities, especially in terms of participation in irrigation institutions. Despite a high level of female involvement in irrigated agriculture, their participation in irrigation institutions is much lower. Furthermore, water projects with gender equality interventions have enhanced women's status in particular by raising their abilities to participate. The results suggest that the incorporation of gendersensitive policies and programs in irrigation schemes could have significant positive impacts both on gender equality and poverty.

scholarly journals Effect of Long Working Hours on Depression and Mental Well-Being among Employees in Shanghai: The Role of Having Leisure Hobbies

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (24) ◽  
pp. 4980
Author(s):  
Zan Li ◽  
Junming Dai ◽  
Ning Wu ◽  
Yingnan Jia ◽  
Junling Gao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Health ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Working Time ◽  
World Health ◽  
Long Working Hours ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Mental Well Being

Our aim is to examine the associations between long working hours and depression and mental well-being among the working population in Shanghai, as well as to identify the impact of having hobbies on these relationships. A cross-sectional study was conducted in Shanghai, with depression assessed by the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) scale and mental well-being assessed by the World Health Organization five-item Well-Being Index (WHO-5) scale. The phenomenon of long working hours (69.3%) was quite common among employees in Shanghai, and the rate of working over 60 h was 19.3%. Those who worked over 60 h had the highest prevalence of poorer mental health compared with individuals working ≤40 h per week. After adjustment in the logistic regression model, those who reported weekly working time over 60 h were 1.40 (95%CI: 1.03–1.90) and 1.66 (95%CI: 1.26–2.18) times more likely to have depression and poor mental well-being (PMWB), respectively. Adjusted ORs for having hobbies were 0.78 (95%CI: 0.62–0.97) and 0.62 (95%CI: 0.51–0.75), respectively. Meanwhile, having hobbies could significantly lower the mean score on the PHQ-9 and elevate the mean score on the WHO-5 in each working time group, with no interaction effect. Long working hours could have a significantly negative impact on workers’ psychological health. Importantly, having hobbies in their daily lives might help to mitigate the adverse effects of long working hours on workers’ depression and mental well-being.

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