Gender career divide and women's disadvantage in depressive symptoms and physical limitations in France.

ABSTRACT: This study investigated the relationship between women's disadvantage in mental health and physical functioning and gender differences in career backgrounds. Sexual division of labor persists and key career characteristics are overrepresented in women: low-skilled first job, downward occupational trajectory, interruptions. These interrelated characteristics are usually linked to poor health. Their overrepresentation in women may be related to the female-male health gap; however, it may not if overrepresentation transposed into substantially weaker associations with poor health outcomes. To address this question, we used the French population survey "Health and Occupational Trajectories" (2006) and focused on 45-74 year-old individuals who ever worked (n=7537). Past career characteristics w

SUBMITTER: Cambois E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5768992 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature