Grant: Chair: Gender, Work and Health

There has been an overall neglect of the important influence that gender and the quality of work plays on the tasks undertaken by various health care professionals. This neglect has important consequentions on the sustainability of the health workforce both in terms of recruiting new workers and retaining existing workers. The research program to be undertaken by this proposed research chair will address this gap in our knowledge and approaches to health care decision-making by making it an explicit focus. This will be accomplished in distinct yet overlapping ways. First, by better understanding how gender influences the quality of work, the types of task that are assigned to different health workers and by how gender influences the movement of health professionals both within Canada and internationally.