Faculty Books and Book Chapters
Chapter Title/Book Title
From Striving To Thriving: How Facing Adversity across the Lifespan Can Foster Workplace Resilience
Book Title
Older Women Who Work: Resilience, Choice, and Change
Editors
Ellen Cole and Lisa Hollis-Sawyer
Files
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Document Type
Book Chapter
Abstract/Excerpt/Description
As women in the workforce age, they face a number of new challenges that intersect with previously experienced hurdles. These challenges are more pronounced in the case of older women, who may already experience discrimination based on other identities such as ethnic background or sexual minority status. This chapter illustrates how challenges for older working women such as ageism, lookism, and caregiving intersect with previously experienced hurdles and how these may be more pronounced for women who already experience discrimination based on race, ethnicity, country of origin, religion, disability, or sexual orientation. It provides key insights into resilience and the mechanisms by which adversity can promote late-life psychological well-being. The chapter then outlines pathways through which these challenges can facilitate growth and proposes a model of resiliency factors to inform gerodiverse women, professionals, and organizations about how to promote psychological well-being among our diverse and flourishing late-life female workforce.
Keywords
adversity, gerodiverse women, lifespan, older working women, psychological well-being, workforce age, workplace resilience
DOI
10.1037/0000212-002
ORCID ID
0000-0003-0942-7097, 0000-0002-7460-7716
ISBN
9781433832888
Publication Date
2021
Publisher
American Psychological Association
City
Washington D.C., USA
Disciplines
Psychology
NSUWorks Citation
Stripling, A. M.,
Maccarrone, J. E.
(2021). From Striving To Thriving: How Facing Adversity across the Lifespan Can Foster Workplace Resilience. Older Women Who Work: Resilience, Choice, and Change.
Available at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cps_facbooks/645