Employee Health Services for Women Workers

Abstract

More than ever before and at a rate that has surpassed all projections, women are taking and keeping jobs outside the home. While they continue to concentrate in their traditional white collar and service jobs, increasing numbers are entering blue collar, craft, technical, and professional categories from which they had hitherto largely been excluded. The numbers of women working as laborers and in agriculture have also grown, along with female representation in supervisory and managerial positions. This movement has been part of a veritable social revolution marked by changing expectations of and attitudes toward the roles of women as workers, homemakers, bearers of children, and members of society.

Reprinted from Preventive Medicine Journal 7, 385–393 (Academic Press, N.Y., 1978) with permission of the publisher.