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Women, Working
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Definition of 'Women, Working'Women who are engaged in gainful activities usually outside the home. Common names: Women, Working; Woman, Working; Working Woman; Working Women |
Sunday, November 22, 2009
9 Aug 2009 
Work as a physician may be related to several occupational hazards. Only few studies have investigated the relations between work as a physician and the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes and the results have been inconsistent. We conducted a ... Read more...
9 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Women have more spells of sickness absence than men but the reasons for this are unknown. We wanted to see if occupation, working conditions, income, health and mental distress may explain this gender difference. METHODS: In a health ... Read more...
Employment gains and wage declines: the erosion of black women's relative wages since 1980.
30 Jul 2009 Public policy initiatives in the 1950s and 1960s, including Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity law, helped mitigate explicit discrimination in pay, and the expansion of higher education and training programs have advanced the ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Women, Working'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- [The Nobel Prize for Medicine 2009: the cap with shrinking protection]
11 Oct 2009 - Work as a physician and adverse pregnancy outcomes: a Finnish nationwide population-based registry study. 9 Aug 2009
- Sickness absence: could gender divide be explained by occupation, income, mental distress and health? 9 Aug 2009
- Employment gains and wage declines: the erosion of black women's relative wages since 1980. 30 Jul 2009
- Paid parental leave--a long and winding road. 30 Jul 2009
- Surface tension by Caveman. 13 Jul 2009
- Employment status, coronary heart disease, and stroke among women. 10 Jul 2009
- Delivering health care through community pharmacies: are working conditions deterring female pharmacists' participation? 29 Jun 2009
- Cultural versus reproductive success: Why does economic development bring new tradeoffs? 29 Jun 2009
- Work life and mental wellbeing of single and non-single working mothers in Scandinavia. 23 Jun 2009
- Disability pensioning: the gender divide can be explained by occupation, income, mental distress and health. 15 Jun 2009
- Change in attitudes about employed mothers: exposure, interests, and gender ideology discrepancies. 30 May 2009
- Self-reported back pain among farm women in southeast Louisiana. 30 May 2009
- Workplace lactation programs: a critical element for breastfeeding mothers' success. 30 May 2009
- Balancing work and life: a conversation with Margaret "Peggy" Goodell. 30 May 2009
- Dental school deans' perceptions of the organizational culture and impact of the ELAM program on the culture and advancement of women faculty. 30 May 2009
- In support of breastfeeding. 30 May 2009
- Infertility among cosmetologists. 26 May 2009
- Prevalence of urinary tract infections and associated factors among pregnant workers in the electronics industry. 3 May 2009
- Engagement in patterns of daily occupations and perceived health among women of working age. 29 Apr 2009
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Technical information about 'Women, Working'
Definition: Women who are engaged in gainful activities usually outside the home.
Descriptor UI: D014931
Alternative terms: Women, Working; Woman, Working; Working Woman; Working Women;
Allowable Qualifiers: classification; education; history; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; statistics & numerical data;
Tree Number: M01.975.825;
History Note: 91(84); was see under WOMEN 1984-90