Gender Roles in a Masculine Occupation: Military Men and Women’s Differential Negotiation of the Work–Family Interface

Huffman, Ann H.; Culbertson, Satoris S.; Barbour, Joseph E.

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“…The same problem we perceive in professions such as social worker, nurse and psychologist (Wilbourne, 2010). Since rescue workers are usually men (Huffman et al, 2015;Miller et al, 2003;Sinden, 2013) and at the same time they were not strongly represented in our sample, the result is gender disproportion. Also, Cronbach´s alpha value in the narcissism subscale was lower than recommended 0.7.…”

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“…The same problem is in professions such as social work, nursing and psychology (Wilbourne, 2010), because females usually engage in such kinds of occupations as arts, humanities, education and helping professions (Richardson & Watt, 2006). On the other hand, rescue workers are usually men (Huffman et al, 2015;Miller et al, 2003;Sinden, 2013). Except for gender stereotypes, Watt (2010) lists several factors that may affect the occupational choice based on gender -social barriers and supports, parents, peers, teachers, media, ability, perceived abilities, and motivation.…”

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The Effect of Gender and Age on the Dark Triad in Helping Professions – the Comparison with General Population

Čopková

2022

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Helping professions represent professions in our society, whose main aim is to help others. Less attention was paid to the fact that, like every person, a helping professional has, to some extent, maladaptive personality traits too. The aim of the present study was to explore three aversive personality traits - Machiavellianism, narcissism and psychopathy on a sample of helping professionals. The study was conducted on a sample of 312 participants from different sectors of the helping professions - pedagogical workers, healthcare workers, rescue workers, social workers and general population. The Slovak version of Short Dark Triad - SD3 has been administered (Jones & Paulhus 2014; Čopková & Šafár, 2021). The main result showed that helping professionals scored significantly higher than general population in psychopathy. The testing of between-subject variability while controlling the effect of gender and age indicated that in psychopathy healthcare workers and rescue workers scored significantly higher than general population. We find it helpful to point out that even among helping professionals, who are usually expected to be selfless and prosocial, we can find individuals who are attracted by the other side of pursuing this type of profession - the power they have over the person they provide help to. Based on several limitations we consider this study as a pilot one that might focus the attention on this understudied topic.

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The Effect of Gender and Age on the Dark Triad in Helping Professions – the Comparison with General Population

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2022

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“…We should note that work‐linked couples are more prevalent in specific occupations such as higher education (Ropers‐Huilman, ), medicine (Bowman, Frank, & Allen, ) and the military (Huffman, Culbertson, & Barbour, ). We examined just one of these occupations; the military.…”

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“…We propose that there are some similarities in the military occupation that are shared with other occupations. For example, similar to other masculine organizations, the military emphasizes the traditional breadwinner–homemaker family model (Huffman et al, ). Additionally, both within and outside of the confines of the military, the role of ideal parent has traditionally been placed on the woman.…”

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Gender Differences in Perceptions of Resources and Turnover Intentions of Work‐Linked Couples in Masculine Occupations

Huffman

Olson

2016

Stress and Health

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Employees in work-linked marriages have spouses that share the same family and the same workplace and/or occupation. Whereas, in recent years, there has been increasingly more research on dual-career marriages (i.e. both spouses work, but not necessarily at the same workplace and/or occupation), there has been very little research on work-linked marriages. The current study focuses on work resources (i.e. family supportive supervisor behaviour and job control) as key mediating processes that explain the effect of gender on turnover intentions among work-linked employees in masculine occupations (i.e. military). Investigating gender differences is important because, compared with men, women are more likely to be in work-linked marriages and to leave their jobs. Based on role theory and conservation of resource theory, we predicted that gender was related to turnover intentions, and this relationship would be mediated by key explanatory variables (i.e. family supportive supervisor behaviours, job control and psychological distress). Mediation analyses, conducted on a sample of men and women in work-linked marriages (n = 309), provide support for the hypothesized model. These findings offer guidance for understanding gender differences among work-linked employees in masculine occupations, and how these differences can affect important outcomes such as turnover intentions. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…Así, mientras que algunas ocupaciones ligadas a la agresividad, la fuerza física, o la competitividad -como las carreras políticas o militareshan sido consideradas de "naturaleza masculina" otras labores usualmente vinculadas al cuidado -como la enfermería, la educación de la primera infancia o la cosmetología-se han considerado de "naturaleza femenina" (Huffman, Culbertson, & Barbour, 2015;McDowell, 2015;Schwartz & Rubel-Lifschitz, 2009).…”

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Ideología del rol de género, espiritualidad y religiosidad en contextos militares

Simkin¹,

Matrángolo²,

Azzollini³

2018

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Distintos autores observan que las concepciones en relación al género en contextos militares son reforzadas por los vínculos entre las Fuerzas Armadas y las instituciones religiosas, caracterizadas tradicionalmente por la promoción de roles de género más conservadores. Sin embargo, mientras que el apego a los roles tradicionales suele asociarse positivamente con la religiosidad, su relación con la espiritualidad permanece relativamente inexplorada. Por este motivo, el presente estudio se propuso identificar si existen relaciones entre la espiritualidad, la religiosidad y la ideología del rol de género en una muestra de 102 participantes de ambos géneros con experiencia militar. Se emplearon las escalas ASPIRES e IRG para la evaluación de los constructos de interés. Los resultados sugieren que mientras que la religiosidad se encuentra asociada positivamente a creencias vinculadas a una ideología del rol de género más conservadora, la espiritualidad no se encuentra relacionada en absoluto. Las implicancias del estudio aportan al esclarecimiento del modo en que se relacionan estas variables en contextos militares y religiosos, así como a la discriminación de la espiritualidad y de la religiosidad como constructos diferentes.AbstractDifferent authors observe that the conceptions in relation to gender in military contexts are reinforced by the links between the Armed Forces and religious institutions, traditionally characterized by the promotion of more conservative gender roles. However, while higher attachment to traditional values seems to be associated with religion, it´s relationship with spirituality remains unexplored. For this reason, this study aimed to explore the relationships between spirituality, religiosity and gender role ideology in a sample of 102 participants of both genders with military experience. The ASPIRES and IRG scales were used for the evaluation of the constructs of interest. The results show that while religiosity is found to be positively related to beliefs linked to a traditional gender role ideology, spirituality is not related to it at all. The findings of the study contribute to the clarification of the way in which these variables are related to each other in religious and military contexts, as well as to the discrimination of spirituality and religiosity as different constructs.

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Gender Roles in a Masculine Occupation: Military Men and Women’s Differential Negotiation of the Work–Family Interface

Cited by 6 publications

References 55 publications

The Effect of Gender and Age on the Dark Triad in Helping Professions – the Comparison with General Population

The Effect of Gender and Age on the Dark Triad in Helping Professions – the Comparison with General Population

Gender Differences in Perceptions of Resources and Turnover Intentions of Work‐Linked Couples in Masculine Occupations

Ideología del rol de género, espiritualidad y religiosidad en contextos militares

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