Adaptation of Gender in Field Firefighting Work - A Case Study of Female Firefighters in New Taipei City
| Autor: | Chao-Jen Wang, 王昭仁 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 106 Field firefighting work has a special system that possesses the features of mobility-emphasizing, high risk, and 24-hours duty. In Taiwan, male firefighters take charge of fire field work in the past. Even though there are some places for female firefighters, the places are not many because of the requirement of fire field work for the female. However, Along with the notion of gender mainstreaming raising, Ministry of Examination Gender Equality Committee argued the limit against the gender equality. Hence, after allowing general students to register「Annual Fire Safety Police Special Examination」, there is no restriction on the number of male and female anymore. More and more females started to work for field firefighting units but traditional concepts still consider field firefighting work as masculine work. The cities of modern country’s fire manpower are mainly made up of the male. Female firefighter’s workplace was turned business dealing, no late night shift requiring office work into more dangerous and high physical loading field firefighting work. The changes are not only facing differently workplace but also have to readapt the group life with opposite sex. Breaking the view of gender role in the place of field firefighting work that society and fire agency had held for long in the past. Therefore, the aim of this study was to response the gender equality that leads many women to engage to field firefighting work as a reason to make an approach to the dilemma which female firefighters encountered in the masculine workplace. Expand on the issue by using token situations, work/family conflicts, supervisor support and other factors as main subjects. Based on analysis results, this study offers some promoting policies to lift female firefighter’s working adaption efficiency, hoping to meet the work requests of fire field. After interviewing 16 participants, the study findings were presented as the following: 1. Inconsistent view on the ratio of female firefighters in fire field work. 2. Space designs of fire department require to preserve female space. 3. Gender division under masculine workplace. 4. Special working hours lead to work/family conflicts remaining high. 5. Female firefighters did not attach to the supervisor support theory. 6. The core value of task forces is the professional division of labor rather than centralized management of gender 7. Perception gap of field firefighting work affects working adaption. 8. Female firefighters should not be the victims of performance evaluation. Based on research results, this study gave respectively suggestions on fire policy, fire agency (Fire Department, New Taipei City Government), unit supervisor (management cadres) and study subject (female firefighters). Expecting through the research conclusions could provide as references. Keyword：field firefighting work, female firefighters, working adaption |
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