Nov 9, 2024 · Work, Employment and Society has published many studies which show people performing, engaging and resisting constitutions of masculinities in employment settings. The aim of this themed collection is to bring a number of these – otherwise somewhat disparate – publications together.

4 days ago · On a scale of 1 to 7, participants were asked to rate the appropriateness of passion displayed by the actors posing as workers. Men that expressed passion talking about their project elicited a slightly higher score than for the male control group (5.88 vs. 5.51). The same display of passion worked against women, as the control group’s ...

This critical review shows that, despite increasing attention to fathers in social work practice and research, men are still largely the ‘unheard gender’. Almost all the social work literature that deals with men discusses them as fathers, namely in terms of their function in the family.

Sep 3, 2013 · Men, on the other hand, are increasingly more likely to quit, be laid off or fired, or otherwise leave a job and opt not to look for another. But why are men having an increasingly hard time entering or staying in the labor market–and why are some dropping out entirely?

How, then, are men managing work-family conflict? And does it differ from how women deal with it? The article addresses these questions by examining how people navigate workplace pressure to embrace the “ideal worker” identity.

This research study exists in the realm of men’s work and masculinity theory. Specifically, this study attempted to understand more deeply what factors (family context, social forces, unconscious motivations, specific events/rituals, role models, etc.) influence the

At the national level, policies to encourage more men to go back to work are much closer to implementation. Lawmakers should pursue reforms to the criminal-justice system, occupational-licensing regime, and health-care and workplace benefits.

Masculinity as a workplace norm can not only be exclusionary to women, trans, non-binary, and agender people, it can also exclude and harm men by creating a rigid expectation for how someone is ‘supposed’ to act, dress, spend time, and present ideas in the workplace.

Feb 8, 2024 · Men’s employment in the U.S. reached a 20-year high in 2023, with nearly 90% of men ages 25 to 54 in the workforce, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This supports the broad...

Without work defined as ‘meaningful’ to confirm their masculinity, male workers often insisted on more sharply distinctive notions of appropriate male and female behavior. When women were workers, they were emphatically assigned to different tasks that were defined as inferior in terms of the skill levels required.