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Well-being and sexual minority workers: Directions for social welfare policy and practice
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Well-being and sexual minority workers: Directions for social welfare policy and practice

Trevor G Gates
Social Welfare: Policies, Perspectives and Challenges, pp.1-12
Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
2014
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Social scientists and philosophers alike have explored well-being and happiness. Well-being has been described as the "ultimate" dependent variable in social science. Well-being is a concept that includes a variety of aspects of satisfaction and health, and refers to both global and context-specific evaluations of one's life. However, well-being is elusive for historically marginalized communities, such as the lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) community. One aspect of well-being is finding meaningful employment where we are treated with dignity and respect. Employment discrimination against lesbian, gay, and bisexual workers remains a significant problem worldwide. Currently, only forty-two very highly developed and highly developed nation-states offer formal protections for LGB workers. This chapter will examine whether there is an empirical relationship between development, as measured by the Human Development Index, and the presence of workplace protection for sexual minorities. A positive relationship was found between the HDI and the presence of such protections. Implications for international social welfare policy and practice will be explored. © 2014 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.

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