Empowering through well-being: a formula for potentiating women's emotional health in organizations
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https://doi.org/10.51302/rtss.2020.892Keywords:
subjective well-being, women empowerment, psychological empowerment, gender equality, emotional healthAbstract
The promotion of gender equality, as a practice of managing healthy talent in organizations, is essential in organizations that recognize and value the talent of their female members. However, organizations count with highly trained women who get aside when accepting a promotion, partly because of a series of subjective and structural barriers that make it difficult for them to break that glass ceiling. These barriers include the importance that they give to their role as caretakers as a fundamental axis of their identity, making the ability to balance activities in the work and family spheres an important source of their psychosocial well-being. Well-being is partly the result of psychological empowerment due to the increase in personal resources related to autonomy. Well-being is partway an outcome of psychological empowerment due to the increase in personal resources related to autonomy. This paper shows the design and results of a pilot study of an empowerment program for women based on the PERMA well-being model. This program was designed in order to increase the awareness of the participants about the elements that structure their identity and the influence of these elements on the conflict that supposes performing their caretaking and working roles.
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