Based on European health initiatives on reducing workplace risks and promoting workplace health, the contributors focus on issues that predominantly or exclusively affect women, or have gender-specific implications. Covered issues are: legal foundations for workers’ safety, in general and by gender: occupational hazards, musculoskeletal injuries, communicable diseases: work-life balance issues, including stress, burnout and depression: violence, bullying and sexual harassment: pregnancy and breastfeeding: screening at the workplace: smoking cessation, alcohol awareness, diet/exercise and other lifestyle concerns.
This book integrates the role of gender in girls' and women's development across the life span, looking specifically at internal and external vulnerabilities and risks, and the protective or supportive factors that facilitate effective coping, positive growth, strength and resilience. The interaction between physical, psychological, and cultural factors is integrated within each period of development. The book emphasizes how gender socialization of female development and behavior impacts self-evaluation and identity processes within various cultural groups. The authors also discusses the social roles that girls and women reflectively adopt and describe how externally induced risks such as poverty, interpersonal abuse, and violence influence a healthy development.