Abstract
Workplace violence in health and social care is a serious public health issue. Given the fact that women comprise the majority of employees in health and social care, women working in these sectors are at higher risk of becoming victims of workplace violence. Concurrently, studies indicate that organisational policies and managers downplay workplace violence in health and social care as being part of the job. Against this backdrop, we explore discourses on workplace violence in Swedish disability care services and the underpinning materiality. Based on interviews with 96 front-line managers and care workers in four different types of disability services, we study how norms of gender are embedded in managers’ and employees’ representations of workplace violence and how this contributes to normalising workplace violence in disability services.
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