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dc.contributor.authorLøset, Gøril Kvamme
dc.contributor.authorDale-Olsen, Harald
dc.contributor.authorHellevik, Tale
dc.contributor.authorMastekaasa, Arne
dc.contributor.authorvon Soest, Tilmann
dc.contributor.authorØstbakken, Kjersti Misje
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-23T14:50:22Z
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-24T11:45:13Z
dc.date.available2018-08-23T14:50:22Z
dc.date.available2018-08-24T11:45:13Z
dc.date.issued2018-08-01
dc.identifier.citationLøset GK, Dale-Olsen H, Hellevik T, Mastekaasa A, von Soest TvS, Østbakken KM. Gender equality in sickness absence tolerance: Attitudes and norms of sickness absence are not different for men and women. PLoS ONE. 2018;13(8)en
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10642/6085
dc.description.abstractPrevious research offers limited understanding as to why sickness absence is higher among women than among men, but attitudes and norms have been suggested as plausible explanations of this gender gap. The purpose of the present study is to examine whether the gender gap in sickness absence reflects gender differences in sickness absence attitudes or gendered norms of sickness absence in society. The analyses are based on data from a factorial survey Experiment covering 1,800 male and female employed respondents in Norway in 2016. Each participant was asked to evaluate whether sick leave would be reasonable in six unique, hypothetical sickness absence scenarios (i.e. vignettes) in which occupation, gender and reason for sick leave varied. Sick leave judgments were regressed on respondent gender and vignette gender using binary logistic regressions across three cut points. Overall, we did not find a substantial gender difference in either attitudes towards sickness absence or sickness absence norms. However, further analyses indicated more tolerant social norms of sickness absence for employees in gender-dominated occupations than for employees in gender-integrated occupations. This pattern could be a result of the type of work attributed to these occupations rather than their gender composition. Contrary to popular belief, we conclude that widely held attitudes and norms of sickness absence are unlikely to be drivers of the gender gap in sickness absence. The results can be useful for policies and interventions aimed at safeguarding gender equality in the labour market.en
dc.description.sponsorshipNorges forskningsråd 237993.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherPublic Library of Scienceen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPLoS ONE;13 (8)
dc.rights©2018 Løset et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.en
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectSickness absenceen
dc.subjectGender differencesen
dc.subjectAttitudesen
dc.subjectGender normsen
dc.subjectFactorial surveysen
dc.titleGender equality in sickness absence tolerance: Attitudes and norms of sickness absence are not different for men and womenen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.typePeer revieweden
dc.date.updated2018-08-23T14:50:22Z
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0200788
dc.identifier.cristin1603368
dc.source.journalPLoS ONE
dc.relation.projectIDNorges forskningsråd: 237993


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