Into the Organization: The Practice of Gender Segregation in Home Care Job

• Main Authors: Li-Wen Liu, 劉麗雯
• Other Authors: Jian-Jhou Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/tj896f

碩士 === 高雄醫學大學 === 醫學社會學與社會工作學系碩士班 === 106 === The need for resident care attendant is increasing because of Ten-Year Long-term Care Program in Taiwan. After observing the gender structure of this job, we find the employees are mainly women. Regarding the discussion of occupational gender segregation, the institutional factors such as "gender roles" are important reasons that are often mentioned. As the work of resident caring is mostly home care, cleaning, nursing…etc., it seems more in line with social expectation, so the gender structure of this career presents more women than men. But we cannot simply make a causal link between the institutional factors of "gender role expectation" and” caring attendant in home care are more women than men." We must analyze how people (client, labor and employer) and organization (human resources agency industry) make the gender role expectation come true. This research will enter the employment agencies to observe the interaction among client, labor and employer, and analyze how the organization produces the gender segregation of this job. This study uses semi-structured interview to collect data, interviews include human resources agency industries, care attendants, service users. This study found that: (1) The relationship between the human resources agency industries and the market affects the sex ratio of the attendants, the large human resources agency industries attract male attendants due to the market demand, and the small human resources agency industries mainly hold the female attendants. Second, the requirements of service users often must consult with the human resources agency industry, the human resources agency industry will consider the scheduling of the attendants as the dispatch of manpower, not entirely designated by the service users. Third, taking care of the social network between waiters under the reward system of the human resources agency industry makes this occupation continue to maintain the situation of fewer girls and fewer boys. Taken together, this study examines how the interactive process of brokers, attendant attendants, and service descendants can lead to a high degree of job-takeover in the profession.