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Gender regimes in Ontario nursing homes
— organization, daily work, and bodies | | Author(s) | Palle Storm, Susan Braedley, Sally Chivers |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 36, no 2, June 2017 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, June 2017 |
| Pages | pp 196-208 |
| Source | http://cambridge.org/cjg |
| Keywords | Nursing homes ; Personnel ; Males ; Men as carers ; Attitude ; Social inclusion ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Today more men work in the long-term care sector but they are still in the minority. Little is known about men's experiences in care work and the dilemmas and opportunities they face because of their gender. This article focused on male care workers' integration into the organisation and flow of nursing home work as perceived by these workers and staff members. Using a rapid ethnography method in two Ontario nursing homes, the study found that work organisation affected interpretations of gender and race, and that workers' scope for discretion affected the integration and acceptance of men as care workers. In a nursing home with a rigid work organisation and little worker discretion, women workers perceived male workers as a problem, whereas at a nursing home with a more flexible work organisation that stressed relational care, both women and men workers perceived male workers as a resource. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170728254 A |
| Classmark | LHB: QM: SG: P6:SG: DP: RNA: 7S |
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