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arrow for change – risky business: women and occupational health
Published in 2001
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While economists and development professionals generally extol the benefits of industrial development, few mention the hidden costs of increased deaths and fatalities at work. Women are amongst the injured and dead as they have “enjoyed” the greatest rise in labour force participation, mainly in lowly paid, low skill manufacturing jobs. Increasingly women’s work is dispersed, […]
arrow for change – women’s well-being: reframing mental health
Published in 2001
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Women need to have control of their lives in order to be physically and mentally healthy. Poverty, gender power relations, gender discrimination and violence against women as the main social determinants of women’s mental health have reduced this control and thus these factors need to be urgently addressed. Central to women’s NGO work in Asia […]
arrow for change – older women’s health: facing the challenges
Published in 1999
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In a region where women continue to be valued less than men, older women’s health reflects their life-long experience of discrimination, deprivation and neglect. The older women of Asia-Pacific today face similar situations of poverty, malnutrition, poor health care, physical overwork and unhealthy work environments in their younger years. Along with high infant mortality rates, […]