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This study found that gender differences exist within senior U.K. civil servants. Females within the civil service were significantly more job dissatisfied, and suffered from poorer mental and physical ill health. They also showed more concern about their role at work, the factors associated with their particular job, the job's relationship to the home environment, and the constraints of the job. Males were more affected by how much “control” they felt they had at work, and by their hard-driving and achievement oriented behavior.
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Bogg, J., Cooper, C.L. An examination of gender differences for job satisfaction, mental health, and occupational stress among senior U. K. civil servants. Int J Stress Manage 1, 159–172 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01857609
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