2023-09-21 14:32:29
The proportion of employees, men and women combined, who feel satisfied with their work has, on the other hand, increased.
Female employees are more likely to experience mental health problems than men. In any case, they are more likely to declare it than their male colleagues when asked on the subject. This is one of the results that emerges from the last barometer on workplace health from Malakoff Humanis published this Thursday. In detail, 45% of them, or nearly one in two women, say they are in poor mental health, while 32% of employed men give this answer. For women, this proportion increased by 4 points compared to 2022.
More than half of them (55%) declare having suffered from a mental health disorder during the last twelve months. For a third of them, these disorders have professional origins while a third attribute them to their personal life. Finally, a third say it is a combination of the two. The financial situation of the women concerned is mentioned in 39% of cases as one of the origins of the deterioration of their mental health.
Among the possible explanations, we find the over-representation of women among part-time employees. In fact, 17% of women hold a job of this type compared to 7% of men. Women are also in charge of 85% of single-parent families in France (25% of families in France according to INSEE) which might also explain why more of them have this type of concern. Not to mention that women receive on average salaries 24.4% lower than those of men in France, according to 2021 INSEE data.
The intensity and time of work involved
Among the professional reasons given, the intensity and time of work are mentioned by 65% of women experiencing mental health disorders. 41% mention the deterioration of social relations at work.
The state of health, both physical and psychological, seems to have deteriorated for all employees. In total, 65% say they are in good health, a proportion that has been falling steadily since 2011 (71%). Here once more, female employees appear more affected: 62% of them say they are in good health in 2023 compared to 68% of men. A gender gap which is also found in terms of physical health. 41% of women say they are in poor physical health compared to 34% of men.
“Women are over-represented in health and social work professions, a sector in which employees report being in poorer health than the average,” the study also underlines by way of explanation.
But these findings do not seem to affect the general level of well-being of employees. Nearly eight employees – men and women combined – in ten say they are satisfied with their work, a stable proportion since 2011. Another good signal emerging from this work is that 75% of employees say they are confident in their professional future.
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