...Mustafa Nal; Erhan Dag; Yasar Demir Purpose The first aim of this study is to determine the effect of lean leadership on the workload and job satisfaction of healthcare workers, and the second aim is to reveal the moderating role of workload and employee gender in this relationship. Design...

... to determine the policy and practice. Originality/value This research is crucial to better understanding what remedies need to be implemented to address gender disparity in the sector. Table 1 SPIDER framework Sample Phenomenon of interest Design Evaluation Research type Women...

... in order to inform how leadership development programs may more effectively address the gender gap in leadership. Multiple reasons have been attributed to this gender gap, including the posited differing leadership styles of men and women, discriminatory hiring and promotion practices, unsupportive...

... Licensed re-use rights only The purpose of this paper is to examine the experiences of gender bias among women hospital CEOs and explore to what these female leaders attribute their success within a male-dominated hospital executive leadership milieu. The fact that both men and women share...

... and Division Heads were women. Executive leaders requested an exploratory study into why women physicians were under-represented in clinical leadership and to understand how their participation could be increased. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Gender Leadership Healthcare...

...Dr Robin Gauld and Dr Simon Horsburgh; Carol Isaac; Lindsay Griffin Purpose – Because stereotypically masculine behaviors are required for effective leadership, examining female chairs’ leadership in academic medicine can provide insight into the complex ways in which gender impacts...

... and expectations countering gender inequality and as part of ongoing gender empowerment and sexual health strategies. You have to explain to them to at least give you some time for your books, not spending every time in the garden. Although literature concerning young women's expectations in developed...

.... Originality/value The research adds evidence to the current argument that failure to address the disempowering effects of poverty and gender inequality limits the effectiveness of current HIV prevention for young women. HIV prevention must now address poverty and gender vulnerabilities, promoting...

... to as “abusing” or “convincing”. Young women are commonly pressured into consenting to have sex, despite what they really want, owing to the socio‐cultural circumstances. Young women in Uganda are significantly tolerant of sexual coercion. This tolerance appears to arise from power differentials between genders...

... gender ratio and no prior socialization are positively associated with SH. Research limitations/implications This paper closes gaps in theory by introducing a new framework explaining the contextual factors that heighten a nurses' probability of being harassed. Some variables such as organizational...

...Karen Miller; Donna Clark Purpose The paper aims to explore the increasing feminisation of the medical profession and career progression of women in the medical profession. Furthermore, the paper explores the implications of gender segregation in the medical profession for health service provision...

...Louise Fitzgerald; Annabelle Mark; Lorna McKee; Karen Miller Purpose The purpose of the paper is to examine the policy and organizational implications of gender imbalance in management, which research suggests exists in the NHS. Design/methodology/approach The research in this paper involved...

...Kent V. Rondeau; Louis H. Francescutti; Garnet E. Cummings Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report on gender differences in emergency physicians with respect to their attitudes, knowledge, and practices concerning health promotion and disease prevention. Design/methodology/approach...

...Fiona French; Jane Andrew; Morag Awramenko; Helen Coutts; Linda Leighton‐Beck; Jill Mollison; Gillian Needham; Anthony Scott; Kim Walker Purpose The purpose of this study was to explore gender differences in contractual commitments, job satisfaction and spouses' occupation among GP principals...

... on data provided by a questionnaire survey. Findings Gender division was apparent among the non‐principals. Males were more likely to work full‐time, because their spouses modified their working hours. Research limitations/implications It was impossible to identify all non‐principals in Scotland...

...Carla Wiggins; Teri Peterson Does gender by itself, or does gender's interaction with career variables, better explain the difference between women and men's careers in healthcare management? US healthcare managers were surveyed regarding career and personal experiences. Gender was statistically...

...Inger A. Brännström The World Health Organization (WHO) is a global organization that nowadays has integrated gender issues into its policy, programmes and budget. How then is the state of affairs in the area of gender equity at the ultimate governing bodies of the modern WHO? This study aims...

.... Knowledge production and all social interaction is gendered in its nature (Jacobson and Jacques, 1990). Feminine and masculine identities are deemed to be constructed, i.e. not natural or given in biology, and therefore understood as cultural achievements (Moore, 1994). Mackie, cited in Harding (1997...

... phenomenon. This paper provides an interesting local case study illustrating some of the processes at work in producing and reproducing gender based inequality. Furthermore, by controlling for differences in education and experience in nursing work, the study found that such processes produced a clear...

...Janice L. Dreachslin Reviews available literature on gender bias and the process of medical care. Current findings point to possible gender bias in treatment protocols for kidney and cardiac patients. Other clinical conditions have not been studied. Identifies methodological challenges...