Gendered impact of caregiving on older nonmedical healthcare workers

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Result on the web

<a href="https://kont.zsf.jcu.cz/artkey/knt-202401-0014_gendered-impact-of-caregiving-on-older-nonmedical-healthcare-workers.php" target="_blank" >https://kont.zsf.jcu.cz/artkey/knt-202401-0014_gendered-impact-of-caregiving-on-older-nonmedical-healthcare-workers.php</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.32725/kont.2024.016" target="_blank" >10.32725/kont.2024.016</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Gendered impact of caregiving on older nonmedical healthcare workers

Original language description

Background: The paper deals with older workers and the issue of combining informal care for family members with paid employment, which is increasingly important in the light of socio-demographic changes in society – namely demographic ageing and the lengthening of working life. The topic is highly relevant to the group of non-medical healthcare professions studied, as they combine care in the professional and domestic spheres.nPurpose of the research: The aim of the research is to point to gender inequalities in how the combination of formal and informal care impacts the work and personal spheres of (pre-) retirement-age nonmedical healthcare workers.nMethods: The article is based on the analysis of 36 qualitative interviews with nonmedical healthcare workers in Czechia. We used thematic analysis and approached the issue of (un)doing gender from a social constructivist perspective.nResults: The results suggest that women and men in nonmedical healthcare professions face differences in relation to the double care burden in older age. Women are more likely to be affected by a combination of dual care, which has implications for their workload, financial remuneration, etc., whereas men are under greater pressure to perform at work, which becomes increasingly difficult at older ages.nConclusion: Gendered character of double care has implications for gender inequalities in mental and physical health and for the gender pension gap.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Kontakt – Journal of nursing and social sciences related to health and illness

ISSN

1212-4117

e-ISSN

1804-7122

Volume of the periodical

26

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

89-95

UT code for WoS article

001186919300013

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85189099712