Our thanks to Chloe for this. It’s a good thing men aren’t tolerating high levels of workplace stress.
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Our thanks to Chloe for this. It’s a good thing men aren’t tolerating high levels of workplace stress.
Justice for Men & Boys 
Men are just being muzzled so they can’t complain about it.
“Women are not alone in facing difficulties achieving work-life balance. A global study of 250,000 participants by the University of Georgia, published in July, found that men were struggling to juggle work and family life just as much as women,
but felt less able to talk about the issue openly because they feared negative career repercussions
or threats to their masculinity.”
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Am I right in understanding that these women ‘self ranked’ their stress at work?
Today it’s a 4, but yesterday, after a fallout with my mother it was an 8!
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I worked in the NHS and Social Care sectors for over 30 years and still work in the Care sector. It is an overwhelmingly female workforce in both, including managers. Managers refer to “stress” as the “new back pain”. For many years the top by far reason for time off back pain had the virtue of being self reported and diagnosed to GPs. Magically back pain has dramatically reduced (did older people or hospital patients get lighter?) to be replaced by “stress” self diagnosed with almost no objective tests to diagnose (at least an Xray or Scan of the back could be made). Stress soars in school holidays, around bank holidays and spikes over Xmas and New Year and August. The, mainly female, management teams remain deeply sceptical.
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With all the wittering about the pay gap I wonder has anybody done work on the “cost gap”. The cost of employing females. Occasionally some brave soul points out the high cost of maternity leave which makes a young women a poor cost risk. But haven’t seen any work on the comparative “on costs” of a male or female worker. Obviously there are the costs of maternity leave, including the cost of “cover” paying two people to do one job. Then there are the costs occasioned by sickness or absenteeism. For instance women overall average twice as long “off sick”. In some industries (interestingly those mainly employing women) the differential is much larger. And of course are many times more likely to request (and it would be a brave employer that declined) “flexible” hours. Overall one would expect to see the costs associated with a female employee to be significantly higher in fact.
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