Messing K, de Grosbois S
Centre pour l'étude des interactions biologiques entre la santé et l'environnement (CINBIOSE), Université du Québec à Montreal.
Women Health. 2001;33(1-2):125-41. doi: 10.1300/J013v33n01_08.
Women suffer many health problems related to their work, but attempts to improve their situation face obstacles at two levels: recognition of their problems and ability to organize to prevent them. Recognition by occupational health specialists has been delayed due in part to: A perception that women's issues have been included in research focussed on male workers; pressure to deal with more visible issues of mortality and well-established illness; ignorance of women's working conditions; methodological biases and inadequacies. Recognition by unions is slowed when women and their concerns are absent from union membership and/or governing structures. Feminist health advocates have not often participated in these struggles, due to social class differences and difficulties in linking with some male-dominated unions. Also, due to the wide variety of hazardous working conditions, they do not emerge from population-based analyses of health determinants in the same way as do domestic violence, tobacco or poverty. The authors describe three alliances necessary for successful research, policy and practice in women's occupational health: between feminist and working-class organizations; between feminists and occupational health scientists; between researchers and women workers.
女性面临许多与工作相关的健康问题，但试图改善她们状况的努力在两个层面上遇到了障碍：对她们问题的认知以及组织起来预防这些问题的能力。职业健康专家对这些问题的认知有所延迟，部分原因在于：认为女性问题已包含在针对男性工人的研究中；处理更明显的死亡问题和已确诊疾病的压力；对女性工作条件的忽视；方法上的偏见和不足。当女性及其关切在工会成员和/或管理结构中缺失时，工会的认知就会放缓。女权主义健康倡导者由于社会阶层差异以及与一些男性主导的工会建立联系存在困难，并不常参与这些斗争。此外，由于危险工作条件种类繁多，它们在基于人群的健康决定因素分析中不像家庭暴力、烟草或贫困那样凸显出来。作者描述了在女性职业健康领域成功开展研究、制定政策和实践所需的三个联盟：女权主义组织与工人阶级组织之间；女权主义者与职业健康科学家之间；研究人员与女工之间。
