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Pregnancy and the working woman
Working women: then and now
Our ancestors: the good and the bad
Toll of reproductive harm
Protective legislation
Lingering influence of the war years
Giving with one hand and taking away with the other: fetal protection policies (FPPs)
What it's like now
Slow pace of change
Next steps
What can go wrong: reproductive hazards for man, woman and child
Learning about our reproductive selves
What can go wrong
Bringing the male back in
Men and their perceived reproductive vulnerability
Link between cancer and reproductive health?
Prenatal diagnosis and pregnancy hazard counseling
Toxic exposure after birth
WHO standards for chemicals in food
What can you do?
Where we stand now
Workplace: how safe is safe?
Comfortable workplace: what it's all about
Your body changes in pregnancy
Work equipment, work space
Stress: the woman caught in the middle
Social stress
Women in health care, industry, the service sector and agriculture.
(cont) Health care fields
Industry
Service sector
Agricultural workers
Women in the office, in schools and at home
Hazards in the office
Hazards in the schools
No longer a haven: hazards in the home
Need to know how to evaluate risks and hazards
Strategies for the future
Information gap: learning to judge risks and hazards
At risk or not at risk, that is the question
Media messages
How do scientists decide what is dangerous?
Animal studies: rats and mice in the laboratory
Bacterial studies: millions of microbes under the microscope
Human studies: the final proof?
Agent orange study
What makes something a hazard and how do you measure it?
Consumer versus scientific, business and governmental views of risks and hazards
What risk should you take?
What we have and what we want: self-power, women power
What can we do?
Model for the United States
Paths to progress
Barriers to progress
Organizing steps
Future
Protective legislation and governmental regulatory agencies.
(cont) Alphabetical list of resource organizations
Glossary of occupational health terms
Bibliography of useful occupational health references.
Working women: then and now
Our ancestors: the good and the bad
Toll of reproductive harm
Protective legislation
Lingering influence of the war years
Giving with one hand and taking away with the other: fetal protection policies (FPPs)
What it's like now
Slow pace of change
Next steps
What can go wrong: reproductive hazards for man, woman and child
Learning about our reproductive selves
What can go wrong
Bringing the male back in
Men and their perceived reproductive vulnerability
Link between cancer and reproductive health?
Prenatal diagnosis and pregnancy hazard counseling
Toxic exposure after birth
WHO standards for chemicals in food
What can you do?
Where we stand now
Workplace: how safe is safe?
Comfortable workplace: what it's all about
Your body changes in pregnancy
Work equipment, work space
Stress: the woman caught in the middle
Social stress
Women in health care, industry, the service sector and agriculture.
(cont) Health care fields
Industry
Service sector
Agricultural workers
Women in the office, in schools and at home
Hazards in the office
Hazards in the schools
No longer a haven: hazards in the home
Need to know how to evaluate risks and hazards
Strategies for the future
Information gap: learning to judge risks and hazards
At risk or not at risk, that is the question
Media messages
How do scientists decide what is dangerous?
Animal studies: rats and mice in the laboratory
Bacterial studies: millions of microbes under the microscope
Human studies: the final proof?
Agent orange study
What makes something a hazard and how do you measure it?
Consumer versus scientific, business and governmental views of risks and hazards
What risk should you take?
What we have and what we want: self-power, women power
What can we do?
Model for the United States
Paths to progress
Barriers to progress
Organizing steps
Future
Protective legislation and governmental regulatory agencies.
(cont) Alphabetical list of resource organizations
Glossary of occupational health terms
Bibliography of useful occupational health references.