Women: (Not) The Weaker Sex at Work?

Issue title: Women at Work

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Isernhagen, Susan J.

Affiliations: Isernhagen & Associates, Inc., Duluth, Minnesota

Abstract: Women's role has developed and changed dramatically in the last twenty years. Women now are prevalent in the work force and assuming work tasks not in their traditional pattern. Society and work injury managers are beginning to come to terms with women as a gender (different from men), women's specific strengths and weaknesses, and female oriented work injury problems. Science and logic blend to produce a clearer picture of women's physical parameters related to work.

Keywords: Maximum voluntary capacity, Strength, Endurance, Anthropometrics, Myofascial

DOI: 10.3233/WOR-1994-4206

Journal: Work, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 114-119, 1994