Gender, Lifespan and Quality of Life

This publication addresses the gender dimensions of people's lived experience and emphasizes how gender relationships differentially impact on women's and girls' as well as men's and boys' subjective well-being across the lifespan. It therefore fills a significant gap in the literature on quality of life and subjective well-being. The book brings together research which compares female's and male's subjective experiences of well-being at various life stages from a variety of countries and regions, particularly focusing on women's subjective well-being. Sex-disaggregation of data on objective conditions of quality of life is now routinely undertaken in many countries of the world. However, despite the burgeoning of objective data on sex differences in life conditions across the world, very little gender analysis is carried out to explain fully such difference and there is still a serious dearth of data on gender differences in subjective experiences of quality of life and well-being. This publication will assist researchers, teachers, service providers and policy makers in filling some of the gaps in currently available literature on the nexus between age and gender in producing differential experiences of subjective wellbeing.

Represents the first attempt at significant gender and generational analyses to understand sex and age differences in well-being experiences and outcomes across the lifespan Addresses how gender relationships differentially impact people's lived experience on subjective well-being across the lifespan Provides information on the dimensions of quality of life and happiness across countries and regions which can guide policy and services to improve wellbeing at all levels from the individual to the global population Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

Professor Elizabeth Eckermann (M.A., Ph.D.) has a personal chair in medical sociology at Deakin University in Australia. Her research grants, publications and keynote addresses cover women's health, reproductive health, gender and health, domestic violence, eating disorders, quality of life and indicators of health status, health promotion and public health. She currently is conducting research in Lao PDR and Malaysia using a Diamond Dialogue Tool to evaluate well-being outcomes from health intervention programs. Professor Eckermann is a Distinguished Research Fellow of the International Society for Quality of life Studies and recipient of the Zonta International Outstanding Achievement Award for her commitment to the advancement of women. She is associate editor of the international journal Health Promotion International. She teaches sociology of health and illness, and supervises postgraduate candidates in sociology of health, quality of life and sociology of the body. Professor Eckermann has been on the Australian delegation to the United Nations as the women's health expert and undertaken more than 20 consultancies on gender and health issues for the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva and throughout the Western Pacific Region.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction: Why Is It Important to Sex Disaggregate and Gender Analyse Quality of Life Data? Liz Eckermann.- Chapter 2: Well-Being and Communication of 12 to 16 Year-Old Girls and Their Mothers: Gender and Intergenerational Issues in Spain; Mònica González, Cristina Figuer, Sara Malo and Ferran Casas.- Chapter 3: Gender Dimensions of Quality of Life for Adults in Australia; Robert Cummins, David Mellor and Mark Stokes.- Chapter 4: Chasing the Good Life: Gender Differences in Work Aspirations of American Men and Women; Anke C. Plagnol.- Chapter 5: Gender Dimensions of Quality of Life in Algeria; Habib Tiliouine.- Chapter 6: Mothers and Quality of Life in 26 EU Countries; Piotr Micho.- Chapter 7: Gender Dimensions of Quality of Life in Romania; Sergiu Baltatescu.- Chapter 8: Quality of Life for Pregnant and Recent Parity Women in Laos; Liz Eckermann, Anna Scopaz and Matthew Clarke.- Chapter 9: Gender Dimensions of Quality of Life in Russia; Ekaterina Uglanova.- Chapter 10: Re-marry Fast, Die Young: The Gender Related Happiness Inequalities Among Polish Adults; Piotr Micho.- Chapter 11: Gender Considerations on Income and Health in Latin America; Karen Watkins Fassler.- Chapter 12: Subjective Well-Being Across Gender and Age in Japan: An Econometric Analysis; Tim Tiefenbach and Florian Kohlbacher.- Chapter 13: Gender Role Attitudes, Family Formation and Well-Being in Ireland; Margret Fine-Davis.- Chapter 14: Gender and Quality of Life in Singapore; Siok Kuan Tambyah and Soo Jiuan Tan.- Chapter 15: Age and Gender Differences in Well-Being in Croatia; Ljiljana Kaliterna and Josip Burusic.- Chapter 16: Conclusion and Policy Implications; Liz Eckermann.