Hour-glass ceilings: Work-hour thresholds, gendered health inequities

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 176, Issue , 2017, Pages 42-51

  Dinh, Huong ^a   Strazdins, Lyndall ^b   Welsh, Jennifer ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Endogeneity; Gender inequality; Mental health; Social determinants of health; Work and family; Work hours

Indexed keywords

GENDER DISPARITY; GENDER ISSUE; MENTAL HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WORKING TIME; WORKLOAD; ANCESTRY GROUP; EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH STATUS; INCOME; JOB SATISFACTION; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AUSTRALIA;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INCOME; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; WORKLOAD;

EID: 85010288552     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.01.024     Document Type: Article

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