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Unequal working conditions in female and male dominated operations in Swedish
municipalities
Mats Ryderheim, Swedish Work Environment Authority
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Commission by the Swedish Government 2011:
Develop and implement directed initiatives aiming at preventing the exclusion of women from working life due to factors in the work environment – a 3,5 year project
• Build knowledge
• Disseminate information
• Train inspectors
• Carry out national inspection activities
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Research on differences in municipal operations from a gender perspective
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• Doctoral thesis by Tina Forsberg Kankkunen, Stockholm University, 2009
• CHEFiOS – organisational prerequisites and managers’ and employees’ strategies for the creation of ”good jobs” in male- and female predominant municipal operationsProfessor Annika Härenstam, Gothenburg University
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The research approach
Make visible ---------the first step towards change
Compare--------- male and female-dominated operations
Reflect---------How come?
What would we like to do?
What does it take?
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Social home care services and technical services
56 Swedish municipalities, 7000 – 310 000 inhabitants
Parallel inspections of two operations, in the same way from a gender perspective
Inspections of female and male dominated municipal operations
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Our purpose with parallell inspections
Compare similarities and differences in the employers' strategies to cater for both women and men having a good working environment regardless of in which operation they work
Contribute to increased awareness and knowledge among the employers
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3. Municipality
1. Social administra-tion manager
1. Technical administra-tion manager
Social home care units
2. Employee representatives and first line managers
Technical service units
2. Employee representatives and first line managers
Design of the inspection activities
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Facts, 56 municipalities
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Social home care Technical services
Number of employees that we met
1000 850
Percentage of women 92 % 21 %
Part time 42 % 4 %
Full time 55 % 94 %
Fixed-term contracts 4 % 4 %
Permanent employment 92 % 90 %
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Social home care Technical services
Number of managers we met 228 205
Percentage of women 94 % 24 %
< 20 employees/manager 4 % 65 %
21-30 employees/manager 23 % 21 %
31-40 employees/manager 39 % 6 %
> 40 employees/manager 34 % 4 %
(4 % not answered)
Facts, 56 municipalities
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Main shortcomings – employees
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Social home care Technical services
Work demands/work load 77 % 23 %
Resources/work equipment 66 % 33 %
Systematic work environment management
53 % 47 %
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Main shortcomings – managers
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Social home care Technical services
Work demands/work load 64 % 36 %
Resources/work equipment 86 % 14 %
Systematic work environment management
54 % 46 %
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Overall comparison
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Social home care Technical servicesMainly financed by revenues Mainly financed by grants
Task-driven Assignment driven
Workload, staffing and other resources not adapted to work goals
Workload, staffing and other resources rather well adapted to work goals
Equipment is not available to the extent necessary
Equipment is usually available to the extent necessary
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Social home care Technical servicesLow degree of self-monitoring and job decision latitude
Difficult to manage the high work load
Almost always stressed
Quite good degree of self-monitoring and job decision latitude
Can manage the work load
Sometimes stressed
Overall comparison - employees
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Social home care Technical services73 percent of managers more than 30 employees
Time constraints, much administrative work, many relations, difficult to be present in the daily work and support the employees
Highly stressed
10 percent of managers more than 30 employees
Pretty good possibilities to support the employees, can be present and manage problems in the daily work
Stressed
Overall comparison - managers
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Social home care Technical servicesSystematic work environment management shortcomings
Systematic work environment management shortcomings
Lack of knowledge of work hazards
Lack of knowledge of work hazards
Lack of incident reporting Lack of incident reporting
Overall comparison - Systematic Work Environment Management, employees and managers
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Conclusions
* Systematic differences in the work environment conditions
* Systematic differences in the organizational prerequisites
* The prevailing gender pattern in the society at large and in working life emerges
* The inspections confirm the research results
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Follow up inspections6 months after the inspections
Most shortcomings according to the Work Environment Act were either resolved or put into action plans
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A brief evaluation 12-16 months after the inspections
11 telephone interviews with managers
Some municipalities had started to develop their work organisation. They used our documents as a basis. Many decisions had to be taken on the political level.
The Report 2014:3E is available on www.av.se/inenglish/
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