Workplace Stress Factors on Women & Their Children
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Now, more than at any other time in the American historical period, women make up a large percentage of the labor force. Yet, as late as 1991, the Department of Labor records that ôwomen represented 63% of all persons 18 and over who were living below the poverty levelö. Additionally, the poverty rate for families maintained by women was recorded by the same source to be ôsix times as high as for married-couple familiesö. With this same source reporting that ôof 67 million families in the United States in 1992, 12 million (18%) were maintained by womenà[with] the lowest median family income ($16,692)ö (US Dept of Labor, 4). While women who are forced to work outside the family because of a divorce, separation or widowhood are still seeking financial parity, those who chose to stay at home find they are not respected either. ôIn a culture that measures worth and achievement almost solely in terms of money, the intensive work of rearing responsible adults counts for little.ö (Crittenden, 45) With this much importance placed either culturally on achievement or just survival, women undergo a large amount of stress related to the work place, whether they choose to be in it, are forced through circumstances to be in it, or based on their choice to stay at home. This research will analyze some of the stress factors attacking women in the work place and how mothers experiencing this stress affect their children.ôThe social expectation that women will work, even after they
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care workforce is made up of women. Everyday these women face injury to their backs from lifting patients, latex allergies because of increased safety precautions and needlestick injuries because of the rise in such illnesses as the Hepatitis and HIV viruses. The healthcare industry is not the only one to experience loss of work or productivity from injured female workers. The construction industry has also seen a large percentage increase in the employment of women and in loss of work or productivity due to their injuries, often created because the construction trades require operation of equipment that is designed to accommodate male workers of larger stature.
Another cause of job related stress for women is that of work place violence which saw a substantial increase in the 1990Æs. ôHomicide is the leading cause of job-related death for women, and women also are at increased risk of non-fatal assault." (Blosser, 1) Most of these cases are a result of family pressures brought about by the woman working outside of the home and involve a husband who is jealous of a wifeÆs fellow worker or a divorce situation is exacerbated by a judgeÆs unfavorable ruling towards the wife. The result is often fatal and leaves children per
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