Women Work and Health : Current Concerns
Contents: I. Gender mainstreaming at home and at work: 1. Capacity buildings as a strategy for empowerment in the context of women construction workers/Vaijayanta Anand. 2. Children and adults in the division of domestic labour in disasvantaged communities in the outskirts of Beirut/Rima R. Habib, Cynthia Myntti, Iman Nuwayhid and Mirvat Merhi. 3. Informal economy and women workers/Sunita Kaistha. 4. Overlong working hours and women’s work in Finland/Anna Maija Lehto. 5. Gender audits of budgets with respect to women’s health in India/Vibhuti Patel. II. The changing world of work: 6. A theoretical model of various causes of Musculoskeleal disorders/Carina Bildt. 7. Factors associated with self-rated good health in low-educated, gainfully employed, elderly women/Raymond Dahlberg, Lena Karlqvist and Eva Vingard. 8. The need for more than justice/Christiane Kreitlow. 9. Defanging sexual harassment: new approaches/Amita Sahaya. 10. Rehabilitation of female tortured refugees/Tuire Toivanen. 11. Workplace stress and physical health among nurses in Malaysia/Zainath Ahmad Zamani and Fatimah Yusooff. 12. Gender glasses on work related issues/Hanna Westberg. III. The scientific practice of health and development: 13. Health implications of the Swedish gender equality policy/Sisko Bergendorff and Claudia Gardberg Morner. 14. Ensuring effective knowledge dissemination/Anshu Dogra. 15. Professional career development according to gender among health care workers in 10 European countries/Madeleine Estryn-Behar, Beatrice I.J.M. Van der Heijden, Donatella Camerino, HalszkaOginska, Clementine Fry and Hans-Martin Hasselhorn. 16. Gender, work and health/Ulf Lundberg and Gunilla Krantz. 17. Pesticides retailers and associated possible health risks/Florence Temael Mununa and Elikana Eliona Lekei. 18. Safety and health through redesign of garment workers’ workplaces/Piia Tint and Karin Reinhold. Conclusion.
“This book is our endeavour to chart the emerging trends in the issues of women, work and health against the dynamics of today’s globalized world. These changes touch the various sphere of women’s lives related to the fields of
- Gender mainstreaming at work and at home
- The changing world of work
- The scientific practice of health and development.
This book reflects the innovative thought processes of women across the world and the courage and determination manifested by them as they address the challenges that have come their way.” (jacket)
