Abstract

Over the past four decades, there have been significant changes in workplaces around the world, including a workforce that has become more diverse as the relative proportion of women in the workforce has increased. This trend has included the increased workforce participation of women from conservative minority groups. This article discusses the significance of the integration of college-educated women from conservative minority groups into the workforce in terms of their own personal health and well-being. This work focuses on two groups of college-educated women from conservative minority groups that have joined the Israeli workforce: Ultra-Orthodox women and Bedouin Arab women. This qualitative study was based on five focus groups, which included 16 women from the two examined groups. The main themes raised in those focus groups were categorized and analyzed. The data analysis was guided by the diversity-climate approach and salutogenic theory. The research findings indicate that a diversity climate that included most of the different aspects of this approach was present in the participants’ statements regarding their workplaces. In practice, diversity climate supported sense of coherence, such that both diversity climate and a sense of coherence led directly to the occupational health of these college-educated, minority women.

Highlights

  • Published: 18 February 2022Over the past four decades, there have been significant changes in workplaces around the world

  • This work focuses on two groups of college-educated women from conservative minority groups who have integrated into the Israeli workforce: Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations

  • We will present an analysis of the statements made by the study participants, which were indicative of three main themes that parallel the three parameters of diversity climate

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Introduction

Over the past four decades, there have been significant changes in workplaces around the world. These have included changes in organizational structure, globalization processes, academic accreditations, the use of information technologies at work, and a workforce that has grown increasingly diverse with the increased participation of women, in general, and women from conservative minority groups in particular. We will discuss the significance of employment for the personal health and well-being of college-educated women who are members of minority groups. This work focuses on two groups of college-educated women from conservative minority groups who have integrated into the Israeli workforce: Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations

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