Overview
- Represents the first attempt at significant gender and generational analyses to understand sex and age differences in well-being experiences and outcomes across the lifespan
- Addresses how gender relationships differentially impact people’s lived experience on subjective well-being across the lifespan
- Provides information on the dimensions of quality of life and happiness across countries and regions which can guide policy and services to improve wellbeing at all levels from the individual to the global population
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Social Indicators Research Series (SINS, volume 53)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
Keywords
- Family Formation
- Family/Work Balance
- Gender Analysis
- Gender Considerations on Income and Health
- Gender Related Happiness Inequalities
- Gender Role Attitudes
- Gender and Age Difference
- Intergenerational Issues
- Lifespan
- Personal Well-Being Index
- Quality of Life
- Regional Culture
- Societies in Transition
- Subjective Well-Being
- Work Aspirations
About this book
This publication addresses the gender dimensions of people’s lived experience and emphasizes how gender relationships differentially impact on women’s and girls’ as well as men’s and boys’ subjective well-being across the lifespan. It therefore fills a significant gap in the literature on quality of life and subjective well-being. The book brings together research which compares female’s and male’s subjective experiences of well-being at various life stages from a variety of countries and regions, particularly focusing on women’s subjective well-being. Sex-disaggregation of data on objective conditions of quality of life is now routinely undertaken in many countries of the world. However, despite the burgeoning of objective data on sex differences in life conditions across the world, very little gender analysis is carried out to explain fully such difference and there is still a serious dearth of data on gender differences in subjective experiences of quality of life and well-being. This publication will assist researchers, teachers, service providers and policy makers in filling some of the gaps in currently available literature on the nexus between age and gender in producing differential experiences of subjective wellbeing.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Professor Elizabeth Eckermann (M.A., Ph.D.) has a personal chair in medical sociology at Deakin University in Australia. Her research grants, publications and keynote addresses cover women's health, reproductive health, gender and health, domestic violence, eating disorders, quality of life and indicators of health status, health promotion and public health. She currently is conducting research in Lao PDR and Malaysia using a Diamond Dialogue Tool to evaluate well-being outcomes from health intervention programs. Professor Eckermann is a Distinguished Research Fellow of the International Society for Quality of life Studies and recipient of the Zonta International Outstanding Achievement Award for her commitment to the advancement of women. She is associate editor of the international journal Health Promotion International. She teaches sociology of health and illness, and supervises postgraduate candidates in sociology of health, quality of life and sociology of the body. Professor Eckermann has been on the Australian delegation to the United Nations as the women's health expert and undertaken more than 20 consultancies on gender and health issues for the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva and throughout the Western Pacific Region.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gender, Lifespan and Quality of Life
Book Subtitle: An International Perspective
Editors: Elizabeth Eckermann
Series Title: Social Indicators Research Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7829-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7828-3Published: 30 December 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0489-0Published: 17 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7829-0Published: 11 December 2013
Series ISSN: 1387-6570
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0099
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 276
Number of Illustrations: 60 b/w illustrations
Topics: Quality of Life Research, Quality of Life Research, Gender Studies