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- Title
Gender and Support: Work Pressure of the American Workers.
- Authors
Banerjee, Dina
- Abstract
Impacts of supportive workplace culture have not received considerable attention of social scholars. There exists hardly any empirical work that examines the influence of supportive workplace culture on the perceived work pressure of workers, and the gender dynamics thereby. Hence, I examine the gender difference in perceived work pressure and explore the effects of workplace support on perceived work pressure. Literature review suggests that women workers would perceive less work pressure than men and workplace support would reduce their perceived work pressure. Deriving data from a nationally representative sample of American adult workers, I ask: (1) do women and men differ in their perceived work pressure at workplaces? And (2) what are the impacts of supportive workplace culture, supportive supervisor, and coworker' support on perceived work pressure? Findings from quantitative analyses indicate that contrary to the expectation, women perceive greater work pressure than men. And, supportive workplace culture and supportive supervisor are more important than coworkers' support in the reduction of workers' perceptions about their work pressure.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SCHOLARS; EMPLOYMENT of Americans; SOCIOLOGY of work; SOCIAL support; WOMEN employees; SOCIAL aspects of work environments
- Publication
Sociological Viewpoints, 2014, Vol 30, Issue 1, p90
- ISSN
1060-0876
- Publication type
Article