Women, Work, And Health

Married women who work: their own and their children's health.

Estimates of the proportion of married women who are doing paid work outside their homes vary considerably; but, despite the difficulties of securing reliable figures, it seems safe to conclude that, in most parts of the United Kingdom, the proportion is much greater to-day than it was before the second world war. In the 1931 Census for England and Wales, for example, only 11 per cent. of the m...

[Women in informal economy health and work conditions Bogotá. 2007].

OBJECTIVE To determine work and health conditions of women working in informal economy in Bogotá, as well as to recommend priority action plans for preventing illnesses and accidents related to work and their consequences. METHODOLOGY Descriptive observational study. This study analyzed information collected by local groups in work-related contexts during 2007 as part of a set of forms of int...

Health and work environment among women in unskilled occupations

Women, work and culture.

When asked by the Editor-in-Chief to revisit the state of women and work after a decade, interest was intense to learn about the changes that had ensued during that period of time. What became readily apparent is that an entire issue of the journal needed to be devoted to this topic and that the addition of the concept of culture would provide a broader and more complete overview of women and w...

Women, work and compensation