Overview
- First of its kind to comprehensively address the well-being of working women in Quality of Life Studies
- Contributes to the understanding of well-being, a staple of philosophers, positive psychologists, and economists
- Explores factors contributing to and hindering the equity of well-being at the workplace from a management and sociology perspective
Part of the book series: International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life (IHQL)
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Keywords
- Expressing Emotions in the Workplace
- Feminist Eudaemonia
- Finding Happiness at Work
- Job Satisfaction and Well-being of Working Women
- Lesbians and Well-Being in the Workplace
- Mentoring Women Managers in Organisations
- Quality of Life Research in Different Continents
- Stress and Well-Being at Work
- Well-Being of Women in at Work
- Women in Brazilian Companies
- Women in Management and Gender Inequality
- Women in Medicine
- Women in Search of Well-Being
- Women's Well-Being in Malaysia
- Work Satisfaction of Chinese Women
- Work-Family Balance
- Working Women in Arab Countries
- Working Women in Developing Countries
- Working Women in Europe
Table of contents (45 chapters)
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Professional Context and the Well-Being of Working Women
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Public Policy, Organizational Policy and Societal Influences on the Well-Being of Working Women
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Cross-Cultural and Country-Specific Context and the Well-Being of Working Women: A Global Perspective
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jiyun Wu is an assistant professor in Management and Marketing Department at Rhode Island College. She received her Ph.D. in social issues in management from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). Her research areas include quality of work life, subjective well-being, gender and diversity issues, and business ethics. Her works have appeared in Journal of Happiness Studies, Applied Research in Quality of Life, and Business and Society, among others.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook on Well-Being of Working Women
Editors: Mary L. Connerley, Jiyun Wu
Series Title: International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9897-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9896-9Published: 07 August 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0426-5Published: 23 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9897-6Published: 27 July 2015
Series ISSN: 2468-7227
Series E-ISSN: 2468-7235
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 821
Number of Illustrations: 57 b/w illustrations
Topics: Quality of Life Research, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Human Resource Management