Canadian workplaces are faced with the challenge of managing a workforce which is, due to health care restructuring, increasingly expected to provide unpaid caregiving to family members. This research program will examine how sex and gender is manifested in the interface between unpaid caregiving work and paid labour, recognizing that the role strain across these two entities causes ill-health for caregiver employees. In addition to building capacity for research on work and health that accounts for sex and gender, I will work with a range of knowledge users and non-academic collaborators to simultaneously foster the translation of that research into sex and gender sensitive policies and interventions that improve workers' health.

For further information, please contact Dr. Allison Williams at awill@mcmaster.ca or via phone at (905)525-9140, ext. 24334.

I am currently accepting masters and doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows into my research program addressing the gendered aspects of caregiver-employees (2014-2018).

Research Interests

gendered aspects of caregiver-employees

therapeutic landscapes

informal/family caregiving

home/community health care

palliative/end-of-life care

urban health/quality of life

health determinants

women’s health

sense of place

rural health/care

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