The Influence of Gender on Job Loss Coping Behavior Among Unemployed Managers
✍ Scribed by ELIZABETH ANN MALEN; LINDA K. STROH
- Publisher
- American Counseling Association
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 844 KB
- Volume
- 35
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-0787
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✦ Synopsis
Using the Job Loss Coping Behavior scale (JLCB kana & Feldman, 1992). this article examines the behaviors of 131 unemployed male and female managers in coping with their job loss. The results indicate that the men had signiflcantly higher job search efficacy. The article's findings suggest that women may need more help in identifying a network of colleagues and friends to assist with their job search activities than men. The authors encourage employment counselors to be mindful of this finding and to help unemployed women to develop more appropriate proactive behaviors and skills that will assist them with their job search activities.
The merging, consolidating, downsizing, restructuring, and rightsizing that have become everyday occurrences in American corporations have made job loss a concern for all workers (Stroh, Brett, & Reilly, 1994). Simultaneously, the proportion of women and women managers in the workforce has been increasing steadily (Stroh. Brett, & Reilly. 1992).
With this increase in the proportion of women in the workforce, another change seems to be occurring during recessions: Women are losing their jobs at increasingly rapid rates. In 1988. of the 3.1 million workers in the United States who lost their jobs, approximately one third were women (Koltnow & Dumas, 1990). During the 1990-91 recession, however, not only did the overall percentage of women who were laid off increase, but the figures for highly educated women rose significantly (Farber, 1993). Furthermore, based on evidence from outplacement firms, female managers tend to be unemployed longer than male managers and accept new jobs with lower salaries more frequently than their male counterparts (phelps & Mason, 1991).