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Safety considerations for magnetic resonance (mr) experiments have received Htde attention except for the problems associated with the use of electronic devices such as pacemakers in the magnetic field. However, in a 1990 study of reproductive health involving more than 1900 women working in clinical mr facihties in the United States no substantial differences were reported between the group of women directly involved with mr equipment (280 individuals) and other working women (894 individuals) (10). Conclusions are restricted to exposure to the static external field. 

Ms. Banks, whose business is four years old, has worked in the hospitality industry since the 1970s in every position—bartender, waiter, manager—you can imagine, she said, and she knows what attitudes are. ( It was just as restaurants were making the shift to having more mixed staffs, not just women working coffee shops and diners, Ms. Banks recalled.)... 

On May 1-2, 1974, a field from the Zhdanov Collective Farm in the Krivoozersk Region was treated with polychlorpinen. On May 15-25, 57 female collective farm workers worked in this field with no complaints. From May 30-June 6 the field was fertilized with ammonium nitrate, and on June 8 it rained. When, on June 11, the same 57 women worked in this field again, by 2pm all developed acute gas poisoning (the concentration of polychlorpinen in the air over the field three days later was only 0.04 mg/m3). 

In a recent retrospective study of spontaneous abortions in a large population of women working in the petrochemical industry in China, Xu et al. (1998) reported a significantly increased risk of spontaneous abortion with frequent exposure to petrochemicals (odds ratio of 2.7 95% Cl 1.8-3.9). When the risk associated with exposure to specific chemicals was examined, exposure to hydrogen sulfide was found to have an odds ratio of 2.3 (95% Cl = 1.2-4.4). 

Women, work and a citizens basic income Ails a McKay... 

Ahlborg G Jr Pregnancy outcome among women working in laundries and dry cleaning shops using tetrachloroethylene. Am J Ind Med 17 567-575, 1990... 

Pearson originally wrote her book to help women understand how their own archetypal roles related to those associated with the careers of men. But men apparently found her book so enlightening, that in the second edition additional material aimed at helping men to understand their archetypal roles and life journeys has been added. Each archetype is in fact relevant to both men and women, the more so as women take on traditional male jobs in managing, and men, influenced by seeing the way women work, now seek to move into the women s archetypEil roles. 

In the 1920s, women working in a New Jersey factory painted watch faces with an element called radium that glowed in the dark. The women constantly straightened their paintbrush bristles between their lips to keep them pointed enough to draw the tiny numbers. A few years later, the women began to have strange sores, pains all... 

Lipscomb JA, Fenster L, Wrensch M, Shusterman D, Swan S (1991) Pregnancy outcomes in women potentially exposed to occupational solvents and women working in the electronics industry. J Occup Med, 33(5) 597-604. 

Chromium may be transferred to fetuses through the placenta and to infants via breast milk. Elevated levels of chromium have been reported in umbilical cord blood, placentae, and breast milk of women working in a dichromate(VI) manufacturing facility (Shmitova 1980). As noted elsewhere in the profile, the reliability of this study is suspect because the levels of chromium in the blood and urine of the control women were much higher than background levels. Measurement of the chromium content in 255... 

Michon S. 1965. [Disturbances of menstruation in women working in an atmosphere polluted with aromatic hydrocarbons.] Pol Tyg Lek 20 1648-1649. (Polish)... 

Vicinus, M. (1985). Independent Women Work and Community for Single Women 1850-1920. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, p. 138. 

Rossiter, M. W. (1980). Womens work in science, 1880-1910. Isis 71 381-398 also in Rossiter, M. W. (1982). Women Scientists in America. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, pp. 53—57. 

An outbreak of Stevens-Johnson syndrome has been reported in 52 Filipino overseas contract workers (aged 20-30 years, 50 women) working in China who used mebendazole for helminthic prophylaxis (11). All took mebendazole at least once after the appearance of rashes and fever. Three women eventually died, primarily due to septicemia. 

Chemistry has always been a dangerous science. Early chemistry was a hazardous occupation. Men and women worked with chemicals about which they knew very litde. The discovery of new compounds and elements could easily have tragic consequences. 

Modern technology now creates and applies new chemicals faster than they can be tested for their potential adverse health effects. At the same time, more women work outside the home in expanding... 

Clearer We re concerned about the low number of women working in our department. 

Hansson E, Jansa S, Wande H, et al. Pregnancy outcomes for women working in laboratories in some of the pharmaceutical industries in Sweden. Scand J Work Environ Health 1980 6 131-4. 

Blomqvist U, Ericson A, Kallen B, et al. Delivery outcome for women working in the pulp and paper industry. Scand J Environ Health 1981 7414-18. 

Europeans from the Netherlands first settled at the Cape of Good Hope on the southern tip of Africa in 1652 to establish rest and repair station for ships sailing between northern Europe and the Far East. More than 60,000 slaves were brought to Cape Town, until a ban on the slave trade in 1808. Slaves were brought into the colony shortly after the initial settlement because more workers were needed for food production. The slaves were equally from Africa and Asia. Africans were brought from Madagascar and East Africa, and Asians from India, Sri Lanka and the Indonesian archipelago. African slaves usually worked as laborers Indians, Indonesians and free blacks were craftsmen, artisans, builders, coachmen, and hawkers. Women worked as laundresses, wet nurses, and household servants. 

Actual share of women work (general and in management)... 

Finkova A, Simko A, Kindrichova J, et al. 1973. [Gynecologic problems of women working in an environment contaminated with carbon disulfide], Cesk Gynckol 38 535-563. (Czech)... 

Recruitment was successful at all study locations. At several locations, volunteers were turned away after a sufficient number of subjects was achieved. While the study actively recruited females, few women work in jobs where jet fuel exposure occurs. The unexposed to exposed ratio for women... 

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