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Category : Environmental health
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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With reference to Sri Lanka.

Author: Anne George
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Category : Industrial hygiene
Languages : en
Pages : 146

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Canada. Report reviewing occupational health hazards to woman workers - considers female-dominated occupations, and discusses effects of chemicals, biological, physical and other hazards, with special reference to pregnancy, and treats legal aspects. Bibliography pp. 92 to 101, references and statistical tables.

Author: Barbara Warren
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Category : Industrial hygiene
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Author: Allison L. Hepler
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 9780814208502
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Early in the twentieth century, states and courts began limiting the workplace hours of wage-earning women in order to protect them from fatigue and ill health. It was felt that a woman's role was to be a mother and that working too many hours in an often unhealthy and dangerous workplace created risks to the performance of that task. In the 1970s, many Fortune 500 companies began implementing "fetal protection policies" to prohibit women from working in areas deemed risky to reproductive capacity. Again, assumptions about motherhood were the driving force behind employment regulations. Women in Labor examines how gender norms affected the workplace health of men and women. Did the desire to protect women result in a safer workplace for all workers? Did it advance or hinder the status of women in the work-place? In answering these questions, Hepler describes a complex network of medical experts, state bureaucrats, business owners, social reformers, industrial engineers, workers, and feminists, many with overlapping interests and identities. This overlap often resulted in tradeoffs and unintended consequences. For instance, efforts promoting gender equality sometimes created equal risks for workers, whereas emphasizing social realities resulted in job discrimination. Reformists efforts to promote the important connection between the home and the industrial environment also allowed an employer to shirk responsibility for worker health. The issue of women in the workplace will remain crucial in the twenty-first century as workers worldwide struggle to create safer workplaces without sacrificing socioeconomic benefits or the health of women and their children.

Author: Roberta Rae McAbee
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Languages : en
Pages : 472

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Author: Karen Messing
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781566395984
Category : Occupational diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Responding to the tough question, why are scientists so unresponsive to the needs of women workers, Messing describes long-standing difficulties in gaining attention for the occupational health of women, ranging from the structure of the grant process and the conferences crucial to the professional life of researchers to the basic assumptions of scientific practice.

Author: Athena Linos
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387730389
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Based on European health initiatives on reducing workplace risks and promoting workplace health, this book focuses on issues that predominantly or exclusively affect women, or have gender-specific implications due to workplace inequalities. Among the topics covered: occupational hazards, work/life balance issues, pregnancy, smoking cessation, alcohol awareness, diet/exercise and other lifestyle concerns.

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Category : Abnormalities, Human
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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Author: Celia Briar
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ISBN: 9781877399442
Category : Industrial hygiene
Languages : en
Pages : 221

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Author: Regina Kenen
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9781560241546
Category : Abnormalities, Human
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Employees who may worry about the effect of their workplaces on their health often don't know how to find out about the safety of their workplaces and possible health and reproductive hazards. Reproductive Hazards in the Workplace aids working women in making important decisions about pregnancy and job-related health problems. It gives women a standard for judging their work situations, shows how they might improve them, and, armed with increased knowledge, how they might seek to improve working conditions for all pregnant women. To enable women to take action, Regina Kenen's straightforward book features: lists of pertinent questions to ask when looking for information regarding risks and hazards information on relevant legislation actual cases of pregnant women in the workplace and how they dealt with occupational risks lists of regulatory agencies, governmental, legal, medical, and voluntary agencies providing information and services regarding environmental health suggestions for small, individual, and larger group social action activities Reproductive Hazards in the Workplace will help women understand the health risks present at their workplaces and to reduce those occupational risks for the pregnant worker and, consequently, encourage all women, pregnant or not, to protect their occupational health and safety. This book provides a combination of technical, physical, psychological, and social materials and "how to" suggestions (guidelines for judging risks and hazards and social action suggestions). Reproductive Hazards in the Workplace is ideal for pregnant women or women planning to become pregnant in the near future who are now in the workplace and who are concerned about health risks. Union stewards, occupational health and women's health specialists, and personnel department officers of corporations may also find this timely book to be of assistance in planning programs for improved occupational health.