Edited Amita Sahaya Sunita Kaistha (1 results)

Contents I Gender mainstreaming at home and at work 1 Capacity buildings as a strategy for empowerment in the context of women construction workers Vaijayanta Anand 2 Children and adults in the division of domestic labour in disasvantaged communities in the outskirts of Beirut Rima R Habib Cynthia Myntti Iman Nuwayhid and Mirvat Merhi 3 Informal economy and women workers Sunita Kaistha 4 Overlong working hours and womens work in Finland Anna Maija Lehto 5 Gender audits of budgets with respect to womens health in India Vibhuti Patel II The changing world of work 6 A theoretical model of various causes of Musculoskeleal disorders Carina Bildt 7 Factors associated with self rated good health in low educated gainfully employed elderly women Raymond Dahlberg Lena Karlqvist and Eva Vingard 8 The need for more than justice Christiane Kreitlow 9 Defanging sexual harassment new approaches Amita Sahaya 10 Rehabilitation of female tortured refugees Tuire Toivanen 11 Workplace stress and physical health among nurses in Malaysia Zainath Ahmad Zamani and Fatimah Yusooff 12 Gender glasses on work related issues Hanna Westberg III The scientific practice of health and development 13 Health implications of the Swedish gender equality policy Sisko Bergendorff and Claudia Gardberg Morner 14 Ensuring effective knowledge dissemination Anshu Dogra 15 Professional career development according to gender among health care workers in 10 European countries Madeleine Estryn Behar Beatrice IJM Van der Heijden Donatella Camerino Halszka Oginska Clementine Fry and Hans Martin Hasselhorn 16 Gender work and health Ulf Lundberg and Gunilla Krantz 17 Pesticides retailers and associated possible health risks Florence Temael Mununa and Elikana Eliona Lekei 18 Safety and health through redesign of garment workers workplaces Piia Tint and Karin Reinhold Conclusion This book is our endeavour to chart the emerging trends in the issues of women work and health against the dynamics of todays globalized world These changes touch the various sphere of womens lives related to the fields of Gender mainstreaming at work and at home The changing world of work The scientific practice of health and development This book reflects the innovative thought processes of women across the world and the courage and determination manifested by them as they address the challenges that have come their way jacket 312 pp.