Akinlolu Temisola, M; Oladimeji Benedict, O and Haupt, T C (2021) A scientometric review and meta-analysis of the health and safety of women in construction: Structure and research trends. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 19(2), pp. 446-466. ISSN 1726-0531
Abstract
This paper aims to present a meta-analysis and scientometric review to explore the intellectual evolution of research on the health and safety of women in construction, identify trends and research patterns and workplace stressors and hazards encountered by women in the construction industry. A combination of scientometric analysis and meta-analysis was adopted to systematically review 32 relevant studies from 1984 to 2020, to provide a holistic review of research on women's health and safety in construction aimed to identify the trend of research development. Techniques such as co-authorship, keyword co-occurring and cluster analysis were adopted. Five main themes summarized by clustering focusing on Workplace Psychological Health, HIV/AIDS and Construction Work, Occupational Health and Safety Injuries, Gender Inclusivity and Sexism in Construction and Gender-specific Health and Safety Analysis. Findings revealed a slow growth in women's health and safety research with the USA, South Africa, Australia and Japan leading research development. Additionally, the major stressors or hazards faced by women in construction were found to be biological related hazards. The findings of the study are limited, resulting from the use of one abstract and citation database. Findings from the study provide insights to the health and safety challenges of women in construction and identifies of knowledge gaps in the existing literature could provide researchers and industry practitioners with a comprehensive insight into intellectual landscapes, potential research frontiers on technologies for women's construction health and safety. While numerous studies have focused on the health and safety of workers in the construction industry, research on women's health and safety is lacking. The study adopted a scientometric and meta-analysis approach to explore the intellectual evolution and reflect the research status on the subject.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | hazards; health and safety; HIV/AIDS; occupational health and safety; safety; women; gender; cluster analysis; meta-analysis; Australia; Japan; South Africa |
| Index terms: | meta-analysis, clustering, stressors, Australia, women, occupational health and safety, health and safety, database, psychological health, Japan, evolution, construction work, practitioner, construction industry, HIV/AIDS, injury, South Africa, cluster analysis |
| Subjects: | health conditions and diseases, practitioner, data management, health safety and environment, operations management, sociology, data analysis and analytics, Geography, environmental science, research evaluation and metrics, occupational health and safety management, industry analysis, data science |
| Topics: | Geographical Context, Research Practice, Project Management, Digital Applications, Health and Safety, Sustainability, Roles and Professions |
| Descriptive scope: | 4 PCTA |
N.B. Descriptive scope is a count of how many of the five facets of empirical research are indicated by the words used in title, abstract and keywords. It is not intended as a judgement on the research; merely a count of the kind of word we would expect to indicate Phenomenon, Concepts, Theoretical framing, Empirical techniques, Analytical techniques. If all five are present, then a code of “5 PCTEA” will indicate this. If you feel the coding for this record is questionable, we welcome discussion around the terms we matched or the way we categorized them. The facet you would expect may not be coded, or a facet may be coded inappropriately. This can also bear on a larger question, of which facets should be treated as defining in construction management research. Please get in touch, and we will look at it. More details here