Men and women experience similar rates of anxiety due to job insecurity

If a woman is supporting herself or a family, why would a man be surprised to find that she would have as much anxiety about job security as a man?

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-09/f-maw091420.php


News Release 17-Sep-2020


European workers report mental health struggles in response to economic instability, regardless of country or gender

Frontiers

As more people work temporary gigs with little protection, or fear layoffs in an unstable economy, job insecurity is on the rise. These stresses understandably contribute to poor mental health and feelings of anxiety. But given gender disparities in the workforce - women are more likely to work temporary jobs and receive lower pay - researchers were curious whether job insecurity affected men and women differently.

A study published in Frontiers in Sociology analyzed data from the European Working Conditions Survey, looking at results from 2005, 2010, and 2015. The survey asked people to what extent they thought they might lose their job in the next six months and whether they had experienced anxiety over the last 12 months. The study found that, in Europe, men and women actually reacted to job insecurity fairly similarly. Female workers reported similar rates of anxiety due to an insecure job to their male counterparts. According to Dr. Egidio Riva, a co-author of the study and researcher at the University of Milano-Bicocca in Italy, this may be due to trends towards gender egalitarianism in Europe. 

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