Gender equality in sickness absence tolerance: Attitudes and norms of sickness absence are not different for men and women.

ABSTRACT: Previous research offers limited understanding as to why sickness absence is higher among women than among men, but attitudes and norms have been suggested as plausible explanations of this gender gap. The purpose of the present study is to examine whether the gender gap in sickness absence reflects gender differences in sickness absence attitudes or gendered norms of sickness absence in society. The analyses are based on data from a factorial survey experiment covering 1,800 male and female employed respondents in Norway in 2016. Each participant was asked to evaluate whether sick leave would be reasonable in six unique, hypothetical sickness absence scenarios (i.e. vignettes) in which occupation, gender and reason for sick leave varied. Sick leave judgments were regressed on respondent g

SUBMITTER: Loset GK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6070205 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature