For working parents, particularly single working parents these facilities are absolutely essential. These combined with reduced working hours they enable parents enough time not only to bring up their children but also to seek employment, return to work, or pursue greater employment opportunities. Health and Safety at Work Hostile working environment affect both men and women workers. But there are gender specific dangers to which women workers, because of their biological makeup, are exposed. These dangers severely affect women's physical and reproductive health.
Women work in environments and conditions that threaten pregnancy.
It is not uncommon to find women in a state of advanced pregnancy, working long hours in constant standing-stooping motion. In some unregistered factories without Unions a woman might come to work today and the next day give birth to a child. These women put themselves at risk under duress. Only the threat of sack or wage cut forces them to endure discomfort and pain, working till the last day of pregnancy and in most of the cases reporting to work the very next day. Particularly in all female industries women continue to work in extremely terrible conditions.