One-eyed science
Subtitle: occupational health and women workers
By: Karen Messing ; foreword by Jeanne Mager Stellman.
Series: Labor and social change
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Women -- Employment -- Health aspects; Occupational diseases -- Sex factors; Sex discrimination against women; Sexism in medicine
Description: After decades of research by the author and her colleagues into what women do in positions such as bank teller, secretary, waitress, nurse, factory worker, and poultry processor, Karen Messing is astonished to find that for many policymakers, researchers, and activists, the topic of women's occupational health doesn't exist.

Responding to the tough question, why are scientists so unresponsive to the needs of women workers, Messing describes long-standing difficulties in gaining attention for the occupational health of women, ranging from the structure of the grant process and the conferences crucial to the professional life of researchers to the basic assumptions of scientific practice.

Messing laments the separation of even most feminist health researchers from workplace concerns and asserts that it is time to develop a science that can prevent women workers' pain and suffering.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-233) and index.