Gender, Lifespan and Quality of Life: An International Perspective [Hardcover]

This publication addresses the gender dimensions of peoples lived experience and emphasizes how gender relationships differentially impact on womens and girls as well as mens 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?females and males subjective experiences of well-being at various life stages from a variety of countries and regions, particularly focusing on womens 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.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Why Is It Important to Sex Disaggregate and Gender Analyse Quality of Life Data? Liz Eckermann.- Chapter 2: Well-Being and Communication of 12 to 16 Year-Old Girls and Their Mothers: Gender and Intergenerational Issues in Spain; M?nica Gonz?lez, Cristina Figuer, Sara Malo and Ferran Casas.- Chapter 3: Gender Dimensions of Quality of Life for Adults in Australia; Robert Cummins, David Mellor and Mark Stokes.- Chapter 4: Chasing the Good Life: Gender Differences in Work Aspirations of American Men and Women; Anke C. Plagnol.- Chapter 5: Gender Dimensions of Quality of Life in Algeria; Habib Tiliouine.- Chapter 6: Mothers and Quality of Life in 26 EU Countries; Piotr MichoD.- Chapter 7: Gender DlS0