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Differences in the Perception of the Quality of Work Life According to Gender in Health Care Workers

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The aim of this study was to identify gender differences in the evaluation of the Quality of Work Life (QWL) in health professionals. The study was descriptive and was conducted with doctors and nurses of both genders in an institution in the health sector in Guadalajara, Mexico. Included 322 subjects evaluated with the QWL with CVT-GOHISALO validated instrument. This allowed us to measure the satisfaction of the QWL in seven dimensions for each gender in order to make comparisons. 322 subjects were interviewed, of whom 32% (102) were male and 68% (220) female. Males predominated in the doctors with a 65.3% (98), while in the nursing industry 97.7% (168) were women. The differences in the perception of workers according to their gender were present and so we have that the percentage of people who reported being satisfied with each of the dimensions of the QWL was higher in four of the seven dimensions for men, while women only had higher satisfaction than men in the dimensions: job satisfaction 82% to 75%, personal development achieved 84% against 75% and free time management 86% to 75%. The dimensions in which women expressed greater satisfaction than men, show us that they find their work activity more satisfactory and identify greater achievements in terms of their personal development, in contrast to men. The dimension most affected for both sexes was job satisfaction, which constitutes a serious problem for stating that at least a fifth of our workers, men and women, are dissatisfied with the work they do. The differences in the evaluation of the QWL in health professionals, revealed the dissatisfaction of women by the conditions of inequality of opportunity. Women in the study showed with statistically significant, they are more satisfied than men on personal development that they achieved through their work and managing their free time.

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    Raquel González-Baltazar, Silvia G. León-Cortés, Mónica I. Contreras-Estrada, Liliana Hidalgo-González & Brenda J. Hidalgo-González

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González-Baltazar, R., León-Cortés, S.G., Contreras-Estrada, M.I., Hidalgo-González, L., Hidalgo-González, B.J. (2021). Differences in the Perception of the Quality of Work Life According to Gender in Health Care Workers. In: Goonetilleke, R.S., Xiong, S., Kalkis, H., Roja, Z., Karwowski, W., Murata, A. (eds) Advances in Physical, Social & Occupational Ergonomics. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 273. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80713-9_18

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