TitleWomen, Work, and Health: Challenges to Corporate Policy [electronic resource] / edited by Diana Chapman Walsh, Richard H. Egdahl
ImprintNew York, NY : Springer New York, 1980
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8077-1
Descript VIII, 260 p. online resource

CONTENT

I. Context and Current Issues -- 1. Genesis and Highlights of a Conference -- 2. Overview: The Health of Working Women -- II. Physical Conditioning, Strength, and Stamina -- 3. The State of the Art of Strength Testing -- 4. Moving Women into Outside Craft Jobs -- III. Social Conditioning and the Culture of the Corporation -- 5. Changing Roles and Mental Health in Women -- 6. Employee Health Services for Women Workers -- 7. Special Needs of Women in Health Examinations -- 8. Sex Discrimination in Group Pensions -- IV. Reproductive Potential and Possible Occupational Hazards -- 9. A Legal Perspective on Workplace Reproductive Hazards -- 10. The Biology of Toxic Effects on Reproductive Outcomes -- 11. Evaluation and Control of Embryofetotoxic Substances -- 12. Fetotoxicity and Fertile Female Employees -- 13. The Control of Hazardous Exposures in the Workplace -- V. Pregnancy and Maternity Leave -- 14. A Legal Perspective on Pregnancy Leave and Benefits -- 15. Non-Medical Issues Presented by the Pregnant Worker -- VI. Issues for the Future -- 16. Challenges to Corporate Policy -- Appendix: Conference Participants


SUBJECT

  1. Medicine
  2. Medicine & Public Health
  3. Medicine/Public Health
  4. general