Evaluation of work place pesticide concentration and health complaints among women workers in tea plantation, Southern India

Retailing is one of the important industry in India recorded for almost 10 percent of nation’s GDP. The lesser wage earning workers are vulnerable to aggravation and other discrimination at work place. In the informal textile retail shops, women have to pass through numerous problems as they have to manage with both sides of life, say work and family. Predominantly, such women are semi-literates, educated unemployed and financially deprived. It is revealed from the data that there are 58 percent of the women workers are between ages of 30 to 40 and there is no women worker above 45 years. It is clearly shows that the shop owners are not interested to recruit or retain the women workers above 45 years. The educational status of workers constitutes an average of secondary level schooling and they could able to read, write in the local language and understand English slightly. Almost 60 percent of the women workers are belonging to marginalized section of the society. In the present study, social and economic status of sample respondents are analyzed and found that they are poorly paid in terms of wages, and work under deprived and vulnerable working condition. It is revealed from the primary data that women workers are affected by many occupational health issues only after engaging in this work. Moreover, the women workers are sexually exploited and physically harassed.

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AKTIVITAS FISIK, ASUPAN ENERGI DAN STATUS GIZI WANITA PEMETIK TEH DI PTPN VIII BANDUNG, JAWA BARAT

Jurnal Gizi dan Pangan ◽

10.25182/jgp.2008.3.2.79-85 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 79

Author(s):

Venny Agustiani Mahardikawati ◽

Katrin Roosita

Keyword(s):

Physical Activity ◽

Women Workers ◽

Energy Expenditure ◽

Nutritional Status ◽

Physical Activity Level ◽

Activity Level ◽

Font Size ◽

Tea Plantation ◽

Activity Energy ◽

Status Of Women

Quality of human resources is very important to improve productivity. The worker productivity is correlated with nutritional status and health status. The objective of the research is to analyze physical activity, energy intake, nutritional status, of women workers at Tea Plantation PTPN VIII Bandung, West Java. The cross sectional design was used in this study to elaborate physical activity, nutritional status, and productivity of tea picker’s women. The criteria of study sample were tea picker’s women at cluster area of Malabar tea plantation of PTPN VIII Bandung, having infant and they were willing to be interviewed. The total number of 92 women sample was chosen randomly. Primary data consisted of physical activity recall (2x24 hours), food consumption recall (2x24 hours), anthropometry data (weight and height), and productivity (passage of tea sprout). Secondary data were included data of PT Perkebunan Nusantara VIII Bandung, West Java. The result showed that more than a half of samples having active or moderate physical activity level (PAL). The physical activity level of samples during work day (average PAL=1.87) was higher than holiday (average PAL=1.69) (p<0.05). The physical activity was related to energy expenditure. According to Schofield equation, energy expenditure of sample during workday (average=2362 kcal) was significantly higher (p<0.05) than day off (average=2134 kcal). This result is related to Oxford equation, energy expenditure of sample during workday (average=2223 kcal) was significantly higher than holiday (average=2011 kcal). The related factors of energy expenditure are body weight and age. Energy intake on workday and day off were respectively 2362 kcal and 2134 kcal. The average energy adequacy level during workday and day off according to Schofield and Oxford equation were not significantly different, respectively 97,2% and 103,3%. The majority of samples had normal nutritional status, and 30.4% of the sample was overweight. The energy adequacy level according to Schofield and Oxford equation are related to nutritional status of women workers. Keywords: physical activity, energy expenditure, nutritional status, plantation women

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GENDER GAP INDEX FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

International Journal of Engineering Technologies and Management Research ◽

10.29121/ijetmr.v4.i9.2017.98 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (9) ◽

pp. 39-48

Author(s):

Shweta Tewari ◽

Rajshree Chouhan ◽

Sanjeev

Keyword(s):

Women Workers ◽

Labour Market ◽

Working Conditions ◽

Unemployment Rate ◽

Gender Gap ◽

Labour Force ◽

Participation Rate ◽

Labour Force Participation ◽

Work Place ◽

Labour Force Participation Rate

Women account for nearly half of the human resources of a nation and play an important role in the socio-economic development of a country. In India, in spite of focus on women empowerment, condition of women at the work place is not very encouraging. Women often face greater barriers than men in terms of securing a decent jobs, wages and conducive working conditions. Provisions relating to women’s work were introduced in 1891, with amendment of the Factories Act, 1881. After independence, number of provisions has been made in the constitutions to protect the welfare of women workers. Number of protective legislations have also been made and implemented by the government for the interest of women workers. The basic objective behind implementation of these legislation are to provide equal and a decent level of remuneration, proper child care center , maternity relief and decent working conditions to women workers. Despite these constitutional and legislative arrangements to reduce gender gap, women in India are facing discrimination at work place and suffer from harassment. The present paper critically reviewed the effectiveness of government policies and legislations framed and enacted for the welfare of women workers. It also examines the gender dimensions of the trends in various aspects of labour market viz. labour force participation rate, workforce participation rate, unemployment rate and wage rate. An attempt has been made to capture the discrimination at work by computing Gender Gap Index using major indicators of labour market. For computing the index, data for the last four decades has been used. The analysis shows that there are gaps in effective enforcement of relevant laws and implementation of women responsive policies. The gender gap index for employment opportunities and the analysis of major employment indicators showed that gender gap is increasing in many aspects. Major indicators of employment such as Labour Force participation rate, Worker population ratio, Unemployment rate and wages now have larger gender gaps than before.

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Work Place Related Issues in Health Sector: An Empirical Study With Reference To Selected Hospitals

American International Journal of Multidisciplinary Scientific Research ◽

10.46281/aijmsr.v1i1.178 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 7-12

Author(s):

K. Roja ◽

G. D.V. Kusuma ◽

B. Ravi Kumar

Keyword(s):

Women Workers ◽

Health Sector ◽

National Development ◽

Working Women ◽

Working Hours ◽

Work Place ◽

General Level ◽

Work Related ◽

Personal Level ◽

The Government

The condition of working women in India as well as in the entire world in general is considered to be very distressing. Working women in general are subject to discrimination at various levels. The problems and difficulties of working women are multi-dimensional, varying from woman to woman at personal level, and section to section at general level and hence need to be analyzed in depth. There are very serious problems of wages, employment, income and standard of living and sexual harassment among working women. They are not able to get any advantage of social security schemes. Due to their ignorance and illiteracy they are not benefited from present welfare schemes. There has indeed been a growing realization that the women workers form an integral part of the process of national development. This has made the government make continuous effort to give women workers a better deal in spheres of work and to recognize their contribution to the socio-economic development of the Country. However, what has been done remains a drop in the ocean and the women worker remain exploited and unprotected working hours, conditions of work, wages, types of job and other situation is still not favorable to women workers. Women workers have many problems and problems of working women are more serious and server. The present study is an attempt to portray the work related issues in selected hospitals (i.e. GEMS, KIMS, RIMS, GMR).

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An Ergonomic Assessment of Women Workers Involved in Tea Plantation in Himachal Pradesh

Journal of Human Ecology ◽

10.1080/09709274.2004.11905742 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. 223-226

Author(s):

Jatinder Kishtwaria ◽

Kumud Awasthi ◽

Neetika Talwar ◽

Aruna Rana ◽

Pooja Nayyar

Keyword(s):

Women Workers ◽

Himachal Pradesh ◽

Tea Plantation

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I en annan situation?

Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift ◽

10.3384/svt.2018.25.3-4.2365 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 25 (3-4) ◽

Author(s):

Palle Storm

Keyword(s):

Women Workers ◽

Qualitative Interviews ◽

Theoretical Perspective ◽

The Body ◽

Care Work ◽

Work Place ◽

Bodily Integrity ◽

Experience Of Care ◽

Aged Woman ◽

Men's Experience

In a different situation? Experiences of being a man, born outside Europe working in nursing homesThe normative picture of a care worker as a white middle-aged woman is under transition; today more Swedish-born men and more immigrant women and men work in residential care. However, there is scarce knowledge regarding migrant men’s experience of care work, an occupation dominated by women where the requested characteristics challenge stereotypical assumptions about immigrant masculinities. In order to reduce this knowledge gap this study aims to explore the experiences of being a non-white man working in nursing homes. The study is based on qualitative interviews, and the data is analysed from a theoretical perspective that considers the body as a situation where lived experiences shape the individual’s scope of discretion. The findings focus on five themes: the way into the work, the questioned body, collegial relationships, relations with female and male residents, and the non-white body as vulnerable. The analysis indicates that both gender and skin colour are fundamental to understand the men’s situation, but these categories had different meaning depending on the situation. When the men helped female residents, they had to balance between respecting the women’s bodily integrity and convincing them to accept help. When they helped male residents, gender was considered as shared experience, which meant that they could understand the men differently than women workers. However, as several of the women rejected men as care workers, the men’s situation became conditional since too many men generated organizational dilemmas. The men also faced racism from residents, but although this evoke feelings of anger, they argued that racist comments were an integral part of their work, and therefore difficult to change. Another challenge was to defend their occupation to migrant men outside their work place who considered care work unsuitable for men in their situation.

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Discrimination of women on work place - relation to maternity, disability and women’s health

Temida ◽

10.2298/tem0604027d ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 27-34 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ljiljana Dobrosavljevic-Grujic

Keyword(s):

Women Workers ◽

Pregnant Women ◽

Women's Health ◽

Women Victims ◽

Special Kind ◽

Health Condition ◽

Work Place ◽

Young Mothers ◽

Legal Regulations ◽

Disabled Women

A special kind of discrimination of women on work place is that related to their psychophysical condition. Whereas the health condition is often a pretext for discrimination of pregnant women, young mothers, sick and disabled women workers, the mobbing at work is discrimination that may have psychical troubles as a consequence. We present a brief analysis of relevant international and domestic regulations, demonstrating explicitly their breaking on the examples from the work of SOS Hotline for women victims of discrimination at work. The conclusion is that for struggle against the discrimination related to psychophysical condition of workingwomen it is important to fight against breaking the positive legal regulations, as well as working on their improvement. .

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SOCIO ECONOMIC AND HEALTH CONDITION OF WOMEN AGRICULTURAL WORKERS IN THIRUVARUR DISTRICT, TAMIL NADU

10.36106/gjra/7408570 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-3

Author(s):

J. Raja Meenakshi ◽

Sigamani, P

Keyword(s):

Women Workers ◽

Tamil Nadu ◽

Agricultural Development ◽

Skin Irritation ◽

Well Being ◽

Health Condition ◽

Agricultural Workers ◽

Leg Pain ◽

Work Place ◽

Condition Of Women

Economic well being of India depends on the agricultural development since the livelihood of 60 per cent of the population is based on Agriculture and allied occupation. Women workers make a mammoth contribution in agricultural development but the socio economic condition of them is not quite appreciatable due to cultural and political reasons. Women face various issues at both work place and house for being women. This study has made an attempt to study the socio economic and health condition of women agricultural workers those who work in the eld of land owners and get daily wages.This study was conducted in Srivanjiyam village of Thiruvarur district, Tamil Nadu.The result reveals that the 40.0 per cent of the respondents are illiterate and majority of them suffer with back pain, joint pain, leg pain and skin irritation.

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