Gendered Norms at Work

Britt-Inger Keisu is an associate professor in sociology and heads the Umea Centre for Gender Studies at Umea University, Sweden. Her main research interest is gender and organization theory. She has received several research grants, all of them with research focus on organizational factors that are important for employees and managers, such as (in)equality, work environment and health issues. Susanne Tafvelin is an associate professor and registered psychologist at the Department of Psychology, Umea University. Her research concerns the role of leadership and the work environment for employee health and well-being. She has received numerous awards for her research on leadership and stress, and published her work in prestigious journals like Work and Stress and Stress and Health. Helene Brodin holds a PhD in Economic History and is Associate Professor in Social Work, Stockholm University. Her main research concern intersectional theories, care policies and care work with a special focus on how New Public Management (NPM) has affected working conditions and the distribution of services in the welfare sector. She has received several research grants, all of them with a research focus on how norms of gender contribute to shape and affect working conditions and the work environment in the women-dominated public welfare sector.

Chapter 1. On equal terms? Gendering labour markets, the organisation of work and the wellbeing of employees (Britt-Inger Keisu, Helen Brodin and Susanne Tafvelin).- Part I: Working Conditions.- Chapter 2. Classification of work- an approach for the exploration, understanding and prevention of gender differences in working conditions (Annika Härenstam and Anna Nyberg).- Chapter 3. Psychosocial working conditions for women and men in industries with different types of production and gender composition: Sweden, 1991-2017 (Anna Nyberg, Annika Härenstam, Gun Johansson, Paraskevi Peristera).- Chapter 4. A Multilevel Approach to Understanding Job Demands and Resources in Health Care (Anne Richter, Marta Roczniewska, Henna Hasson & Ulrica von Thiele Schwarz).- Chapter 5. Managing Care Work in Times of Austerity - Gendered Working Conditions for Managers (Klara Regnö).- Part II: Organisation of Work.- Chapter 6. Invisible workers - on digitalisation in home care work from a gender and technology perspective (Charlotte Holgersson and Britt Östlund).- Chapter 7. Organising auditing, person centered care and competence in Swedish residential care homes (Palle Storm & Anneli Stranz).- Chapter 8. Gender differences in the impact of work hours on health and well-being (Philip Tucker).- Chapter 9. The interplay between gendered norms and new public management strategies in the shaping of homecare services' work environments (Annika Vänje).- Part III: Violence and Conflicts.- Chapter 10. 'Don´t let it get to you.' Gendering workplace violence in disability services in Sweden (Helene Brodin and Sara Erlandsson).- Chapter 11. The concept of intragroup conflict in relation to gender and wellbeing in women-dominated work (Britt-Inger Keisu and Susanne Tafvelin).- Index.