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Women and gender in research on work and family stress.

Barnett RC; Biener L; Baruch GK

Am Psychol 1987 Feb; 42(2):130-136

https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.42.2.130

20037421

Research on work-related stress has tended to focus on males and to neglect gender as a variable; often, findings from studies of men are incorrectly generalized to women. The failure to "build women in" to conceptual models has impaired our understanding of both work and family role stressors. This article focuses on assumptions, gaps, and biases in the literature; the home, for example, has been viewed as a stress-free sanctuary, whereas workplace stress has been overemphasized and seen as particularly dangerous for women. To better understand the costs and benefits of employment and of multiple roles for women, and the stressfulness of family roles, more attention to the qualitative aspects of roles is needed.

Psychological-disorders; Job-stress; Psychological-stress; Mental-stress; Women; Humans

Wellesley College Center for Research on Women Wellesley, Mass 02181

AMPSAB

19870201

Journal Article

806221

Grant

1987

Grant-Number-R01-OH-001968

2

0003-066X

Psychologic Disorders

American Psychologist

MA

Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts