Women and work absenteeism
There’s an interesting article on MSNBC, Female absenteeism is not just about child care that talks about the fact that women call into work sick more often than men, but, it might not be for the reasons you think.
It’s easy to assume that women bear the burden of childcare, so they stay home from work more often, but, even when it isn’t the researcher argues that the workplace has created an “absence culture” for women:
Patton and his co-author Gary Johns found that elevated absentee rates for women could not be fully explained by health, family or job issues.”
Instead the researcher postulated that social expectations have created an “absence culture” for women that may be a factor.
“This absence culture for women may partially legitimize absenteeism for this group and attenuate perceptions of deviance surrounding women’s absence,” the researchers said. “At the same time, such an absence culture, regardless of whether it leads to actual higher absenteeism for particular women, may also be harmful to women in other ways.”
Women are left fighting the perception that they don’t take work seriously, especially when they have kids. so they may not take any time off at all to prove themselves “reliable”.
Tags: absenteeism, Career and Kids, MSNBC, women-in-the-workplace
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