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Women's Occupational Health

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Occupational Safety and Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (24 March 2023) | Viewed by 6497

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Karen Walker-Bone

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Monash Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, Division of Planetary Health, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Monash University, 553 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia
Interests: occupational health; workplace health and safety; musculoskeletal disorders

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The world of work is changing; workers are encouraged to remain in work until an older age, and more women enter the workforce after education and remain there throughout their lifecourse, perhaps taking short-term career breaks or sharing childcare responsibilities with partners. Increasingly, equality has been implemented across different workforces, even in sectors that were very traditionally male- or female-dominated. Whilst equality is desirable and needs to be promoted and celebrated, women are different from men anthropometrically and physiologically, and in many other ways.  Therefore, this Special Issue of IJERPH seeks papers that focus on women in the workplace, evaluating, e.g., the health impacts of work on women separately from men, and issues unique to women (pregnancy, menopause, gynecological ill health) that affect them during their working lives. Diverse submissions (reviews, primary research, commentaries) are invited. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Mechanical or psychosocial impacts of work on any aspect of women’s health or wellbeing;
  • Flexible work and women;
  • Effects of initiatives to promote more women in the workplace;
  • Health promotion for women at work;
  • Support for women off sick (short term or longer term) to return to work;
  • Work–home conflict and effect on women’s health;
  • Pregnancy, maternity, menopause and work, or return to work;
  • Initiatives to support women working with long-term conditions.

Prof. Dr. Karen Walker-Bone
Guest Editor

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2500 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • occupational health
  • female workers
  • pregnancy
  • menopause
  • flexible work
  • older female workers
  • return to work

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To Be a Pregnant Surgeon—Is There Anything to Be Afraid of?
by Natalia Dowgiałło-Gornowicz, Jakub Jan Zięty, Michał Gornowicz, Klaudia Sztaba, Karolina Osowiecka and Paweł Lech
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(3), 2265; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032265 - 27 Jan 2023
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Background: Women who decide to become a surgeon are afraid of motherhood. The aim of this study was to establish the opinions of patients and doctors on the professional activity of pregnant surgeons (PS). Methods: The study was conducted on a group of [...] Read more.
Background: Women who decide to become a surgeon are afraid of motherhood. The aim of this study was to establish the opinions of patients and doctors on the professional activity of pregnant surgeons (PS). Methods: The study was conducted on a group of respondents consisting of doctors and patients. The study was carried out using a questionnaire of 12 questions. Results: 1074 doctors and 657 patients responded to the survey. Doctors, especially non-surgeons, significantly more often believed that PS should stop working in the operating theatre immediately after pregnancy confirmation. Most patients thought that operations performed by PS are normal, whereas the doctors more often considered it heroic or irresponsible. Doctors more often mentioned fear of financial stability and fear of losing their reputation as reasons for working by PS. Most respondents claimed that it made no difference whether they were operated on by PS or not. However, patients significantly more often declared their willingness to be operated on by PS. Conclusions: The study showed that female surgeons may have slight concerns about how they will be perceived by colleagues and patients. However, most respondents, patients significantly more often, believed that working during pregnancy is the natural course of things. Full article
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Impact of Menopausal Symptoms on Work: Findings from Women in the Health and Employment after Fifty (HEAF) Study
by Stefania D’Angelo, Gregorio Bevilacqua, Julia Hammond, Elena Zaballa, Elaine M. Dennison and Karen Walker-Bone
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(1), 295; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20010295 - 24 Dec 2022
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Women make up a growing proportion of the workforce and therefore many women experience menopause while in paid employment. We explored the prevalence of menopausal symptoms, the relationship between symptoms and coping with work and the risk factors associated with struggling at work [...] Read more.
Women make up a growing proportion of the workforce and therefore many women experience menopause while in paid employment. We explored the prevalence of menopausal symptoms, the relationship between symptoms and coping with work and the risk factors associated with struggling at work during the menopause. The Health and Employment After Fifty (HEAF) community-based cohort of people aged 50–64 years was incepted 2013–2014 to study health and work. In 2019, female participants were asked to complete a questionnaire about their menopausal symptoms, and effect of those symptoms on their ability to cope at work. 409 women were eligible for inclusion. The commonest symptoms were vasomotor (91.7%); trouble sleeping (68.2%); psychological (63.6%) and urinary (49.1%). The prevalence of reporting symptoms was similar no matter which type of occupation women were performing at the time. Around one-third of women reported moderate/severe difficulties coping at work because of menopausal symptoms. Risk factors for difficulties coping at work included: financial deprivation, poorer self-rated health, depression, and adverse psychosocial occupational factors but not physical demands. More awareness is needed amongst employers in all sectors but women with financial difficulties and those with jobs in which they feel insecure, unappreciated, or dissatisfied are at greatest risk. Full article
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