Converging Divergences in Age, Gender, Health, and Well-Being

Moen, Phyllis; Spencer, Donna

doi:10.1016/b978-012088388-2/50011-0

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“…We bring together several strands of scholarship to theorize gender- and age-specific patterns of healthy time use for Americans in the encore years, using a gendered life course perspective (Moen 2001; Moen and Spencer 2006) in combination with the concepts of health lifestyles (Cockerman 2005) and constrained choice (Bird and Rieker 2008). Men and women move through the life course following different temporal rhythms, with enormous implications for gender inequality.…”

Section: A Gendered Life Course Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Healthy Time Use in the Encore Years

Flood

Moen

2015

J Health Soc Behav

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Social engagement is theorized to promote health, with ages 55 to 75 – what some call “encore” adulthood – potentially a time for ongoing engagement or social isolation. We use the American Time Use Survey (N=11,952) and a life course perspective to examine associations between paid work, resources, relations, and healthy time use for men and women in the first (55–64) and second (65–74) halves of the encore years. Work limits sufficient sleep (full-time working men) and television watching (all workers) but also time spent in physical activity (full-time workers). College-educated and healthy encore adults – across age and gender divides – are more likely to exercise and watch less television. Marriage and caregiving encourage socializing and limit television watching, despite differential effects on physical activity and sleep. These findings fit well with a gendered life course perspective suggesting socially patterned (by work, resources, relationships, gender, age) health behaviors.

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Section: A Gendered Life Course Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Healthy Time Use in the Encore Years

Flood

Moen

2015

J Health Soc Behav

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“…The gendered life course is a relatively new framing (Moen, 2001;Moen and Spencer, 2006). The fact is, labor market policies as well as the culture around the career mystique created not only the tripartite life course of education, employment, retirement (see Kohli, 1986) but also the gendered life course, with the male breadwinner model ingrained in both state and business policies and practices, as well as taken-for-granted expectations and assumptions about paid work.…”

Section: Incorporating the Gendered Life Course And Family Strategiesmentioning

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“…A gendered life course framing (Moen, 2001;Moen & Spencer, 2006) emphasizes the dynamics and complexity of lives -and especially that men's and women's life paths are distinctly different as a result of pre-existing cultural schema reproduced in the process of doing gender along with doing race and class (Fenstermaker & West, 2002) in the light of existing labor market and career policies --policies and practices producing/reproducing gender inequality at home and at work (see also Moen, 2003;Moen and Roehling, 2005;Sweet and Moen, 2006). In particular, women's and men's strategic choices are limited by the social organization of working time based on the institutionalized career mystique of continuous, full-time employment throughout 'prime' adulthood as optimal, even though this is the period of the life course when families as well as careers are developed and are nurtured (Moen, 1992).…”

Section: Incorporating the Gendered Life Course And Family Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

From ‘work–family’ to the ‘gendered life course’ and ‘fit’: five challenges to the field

Moen

2011

Community, Work & Family

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractThis paper * introduces the concepts of the 'gendered life course' and 'life-course fit' in order to provide a broader, dynamic, and contextual perspective on the match or mismatch characterizing the social environments confronting workers, their families, and their communities. It summarizes five challenges confronting scholars of community, work, family, and policy: (1) updating outdated concepts and categories; (2) incorporating the gendered life course and family strategies to improve fit; (3) recognizing social change; (4) seeking work-time policy transformation, not simply assimilation or accommodation; and (5) focusing on prevention. In doing so, it provides a very brief history of the workfamily intersection from a US vantage point, along with an overview of organizational response by employers to the 'work-family' conundrum. There is a growing recognition that a sense of fit or misfit in terms of rising temporal demands, limited temporal resources and outdated work-hour constraints on workers and families has become a public health issue. The next step is for employers and policy makers to break open the time clocks around paid workthe tacit, taken-for-granted beliefs, rules and regulations about the time and timing of work days, work weeks, work years, and work lives. ZusammenfassungDieser Beitrag stellt die Konzepte des "geschlechtsspezifischen Lebenslaufs" und der "Lebenslaufanpassung" vor.

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“…Most people anticipate an ''expected life course'' (Moen & Spencer, 2006). However, incarceration is a life-altering experience that transforms normative aging, developmental, and lifestyle experiences (London & Myers, 2006;Sampson & Laub, 1993).…”

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Risk of Comorbid Health Impairment Among Older Male Inmates

Bishop

Merten

2011

Journal of Correctional Health Care

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This investigation originated from a pilot survey of 261 state prison inmates, aged 45 to 82, in Oklahoma. Logistic regression analyses were computed to assess the relationship of sociodemographic characteristics, physical and mental health, and lifestyle behaviors to comorbid health impairment. (odds ratio (OR) = 1.41, 95% confidence interval (CI) [1.13, 1.77]), smoking (OR = 2.82, 95% CI [1.10, 7.30]), and church attendance (OR = 1.23, 95% CI [1.00, 1.50]) were associated with increased odds of comorbid health impairment. Perceived health (OR = 0.38, 95% CI [0.23, 0.66]), mobility (OR = 0.25, 95% CI [0.09, 0.70]), and physical exercise (OR = 0.56, 95% CI [0.35, 0.88]), were associated with reduced odds of comorbid health impairment. Education, smoking, and church attendance represent key indicators of comorbid health impairment, whereas perceived health, mobility, and physical exercise are more likely to reduce multiple health impairments.

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Converging Divergences in Age, Gender, Health, and Well-Being

Cited by 71 publications

References 62 publications

Healthy Time Use in the Encore Years

Healthy Time Use in the Encore Years

From ‘work–family’ to the ‘gendered life course’ and ‘fit’: five challenges to the field

Risk of Comorbid Health Impairment Among Older Male Inmates

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