Observing Inequality: Can Ergonomic Observations Help Interventions Transform the Role of Gender in Work Activity?

Messing, Karen; Lefrançois, Mélanie; Saint‐Charles, Johanne

doi:10.1007/s10606-018-9337-x

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“…This conclusion is not surprising because the professors did not always see a benefit, either, nor did they feature knowledge related to s/g prominently in their teaching. Even more experienced and trained ergonomists can be easily distracted from thinking about social categories during an intervention (Messing et al, 2021).…”

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Integration of sex and gender in interventions by students in ergonomics

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This article aims to analyze the integration of sex and gender (s/g) by ergonomics students during their internship at the master's degree level, following training sessions on s/g issues in the workplace. This exploratory research used a descriptive mixed-methods design, encompassing evaluation of students' intention to use the content from the training (n=13 students), and a multiple case study (n=5 ergonomics interventions). The results show that while students found the training relevant, they only minimally integrated s/g in their interventions and when they did, it was primarily from an anthropometric and physiological perspective. In addition to discussing the training format limitations, the article discusses barriers to this integration: combining learning about s/g issues with learning about activity analysis is challenging; employers' and workers' organizations may be reluctant to approach s/g issues; and it is difficult for an ergonomist to integrate these issues when the employer's request does not specify it.

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“…(2) the biological differences between women and men influencing the interface between work activity and the physical environment; (3) gendered human relations at work, including sexual stereotyping, sexism and sexual relations between workers and between workers and management or clients; and (4) manifestations of work−family articulation (Messing, Lefrançois, and Saint-Charles 2018). Moreover, gender differences are considered in abilities, in terms of working memory capacity, processing speed, spatial abilities and intelligence (Hirsch, Koch, and Karbach 2019).…”

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Consideration of workers’ differences in production systems modelling and design: State of the art and directions for future research

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The effects of workforce differences on manufacturing systems have attracted the attention of a wide range of researchers in recent years. The differences between workers in terms of skills, age, gender and anthropometric measures have a large impact on production system performance. In this study, the workforce differences factors in production system design and modelling were investigated, with the aim of understanding how the differences between workers could influence a production system and how they had been considered in previous studies. The papers selected from the Scopus database were categorised based on whether how human factors are incorporated into manufacturing system optimisation and design approaches is discussed therein or is not. To find relevant papers, two sets of keywords were defined: (1) keywords relating to the differences between workers and (2) keywords relating to the kind of problem under study. Furthermore, the investigated papers helped highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the existing literature and derive a discussion on the possible future research steps.

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“…Dentro de la actividad económica de la pesca existe un 93 % de ocupación masculina y un 7 % femenina (INE, 2021). Habitualmente, y a causa de la división sexual del trabajo, en este sector como en otros de la industria agroalimentaria, las actividades minuciosas son realizadas por las mujeres, teniendo un tipo de contrato a trato y/o temporal y las actividades como la manipulación de cargas que se realiza al inicio o al final de las líneas de producción es realizado por los hombres, como también aquellas actividades previas al procesamiento de los productos, particularmente en la pesca en el mar (Messing, 2000 ;Messing, Lefrançois, & Saint-Charles, 2018).…”

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La realidad de la actividad de trabajo en el proceso de transformación de los productos del mar : cuando el territorio determina inequidades

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2021

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Trabalho e TerritórioLa realidad de la actividad de trabajo en el proceso de transformación de los productos del mar : cuando el territorio determina inequidades A realidade da atividade de trabalho no processo de transformação de produtos do mar: quando o território determina inequidades La réalité de l'activité de travail dans le processus de transformation des produits de la mer: quand le territoire détermine les inégalités The reality of the work activity in the process of transformation of sea products: when the territory determines inequalities

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Observing Inequality: Can Ergonomic Observations Help Interventions Transform the Role of Gender in Work Activity?

Cited by 11 publications

References 76 publications

Integration of sex and gender in interventions by students in ergonomics

Integration of sex and gender in interventions by students in ergonomics

Consideration of workers’ differences in production systems modelling and design: State of the art and directions for future research

La realidad de la actividad de trabajo en el proceso de transformación de los productos del mar : cuando el territorio determina inequidades

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