Abstract
Sharing knowledge and experiences to improve the working conditions of women and strengthen equality is the main objective of the international conference ‘Women's health and work' that the ETUI organises on March 4-6, 2015 at the ITUH in Brussels. The conference will touch on 6 areas organised in workshops of broad interest: health inequalities and division of labour; women workers exposed to chemicals, work organisation and the interaction with private life, the hardships of work, the design and use of protective clothing, personal protective equipment, tools and machinery for women’s work, and ageing and the long term effects of work. The latter workshop is organised by EU-OSHA.
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The conference is organised in such a way that it will enable the symbiotic interaction between workers’ action and knowledge development in a dialogue among all stakeholders (researchers, professionals, trade union reps and activists) towards the improvement of women’s working conditions and health and strengthen links between European institutions and organizations engaged with improving working conditions and gender equality.
Confirmed speakers for the plenary sessions include Lucia Artacoz (Salut Laboral de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona, Spain), Colette Fagan (Manchester University, UK), Katherine Lippel (Ottawa University, Canada), Karen Messing (Université du Québec à Montréal UQAM, Canada), Agnès Parent-Thirion (Eurofound), Elke Schneider and Sarah Copsey (EU- OSHA), Carme Valls, (Centre d'Anàlisi i Programes Sanitaris CAPS, Spain).
Interpretation from and into English, French and Spanish will be provided.
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Powerpoint presentations:
Plenary 1
- Professor Colette Fagan, University of Manchester, UK: Gender, working conditions and health - headlines from the European Working Conditions Survey
- Katherine Lippel, CRC en droit de la SST, Université d’Ottawa: L’organisation du travail et les enjeux pour la santé: mêmes défis pour les travailleurs et les travailleuses?
Plenary 2
- Elke Schneider, Prevention and Research unit, EU-OSHA: Gender at work and varying forms of exposure
- Lucía Artazcoz,Public Health Agency of Barcelona: Gender division of work, working time and health
Plenary 3
- Karen Messing, CINBIOSE,Université du Québec Montréal The health of female workers. Is science Still One-eyed?
- Dra. Carme Valls-Llobet, CAPS. Centro de Análisis y Programas Sanitarios Salud laboral y diferencias entre mujeres y hombres. .
Workshop 1
- Elke Schneider, Sarah Copsey, Project Managers, EU-OSHA: Safer and healthier work at any age. OSH in the context of an ageing workforce. Gender aspects
- Agnès Parent-Thirion, Senior programme manager, Eurofound: Eurofound activities
- Agnes Uhereczky, Director COFACE: Gender, Age and Care duties How to make care duties compatible with work for all
- Nettie Van der Auwera (Prevent Foundation) & Dominique Baradat (ARACT Aquitaine): Job retention and return-to-work of people with chronic illness: A woman’s perspective from both sides
- NHS Working Longer Group: Initial findings and recommendations. What do they say about older women at work?
Workshop 2
- Florence Chappert and Hélène Plassoux: Vers une approche organisationnelle de la prévention des inégalités de rémunération de santé et de carrière entre les femmes et les hommes
- Mats Ryderheim, Swedish Work Environment Authority: Unequal working conditions in female and male dominated operations in Swedish municipalities
- Anne Jacquelin : Mal-être au travail, Ce que la santé et les conflits révèlent de l’organisation du travail et des rapports sociaux
- Marine Coupaud, Doctorante, Université de Bordeaux, France : Les déterminants de la santé au travail dans l’UE15 et introduction d’un indicateur de mondialisation, existe-il une différence hommes/femmes?
- Silvana Salerno, Occupational health researcher, ENEA Casaccia: Compensating for the inequalities experienced as a woman and/or an immigrant: the case of musculo-skeletal occupational diseases in Italy
- Sandrine Caroly, Melissa Bohorquez, Aurélie Fortune, Université de Grenoble : Les effets de la division sexuelle du travail dans l’élevage de bovins sur les TMS des travailleuses
Workshop 3
- Carla Barros, Liliana Cunha & Marta Santos, CPUP: Occupational diseases in Portugal: contributions of a gender approach based on the analysis of working conditions on a local level
- Paula Sobral, Siesi, Portugal : Présentation du travail des femmes dans l’industrie électrique et électronique au Portugal
- Margaux Vignet, Florence Chappert, Philippe Sarnin, Université Lyon II : Hypothèses d’explication de l’absentéisme différencié des femmes et des hommes
- Minke Wersäll, Swedish Work Environment Authority: Women’s work environment, Health and ergonomics 2012 – 2014
- Kersti Lorén,Swedish Work Environment Authority Inspections: Focused on Physical Ergonomics in Patient Transfers
- María Del Mar, Maira Vidal, Universidad De Valladolid (España): El acoso por razón de género en ocupaciones masculinizadas: el caso de las mujeres mecánicas en los talleres de reparación y mantenimiento de vehículos a motor en España
Workshop 4
- Neus Moreno Saenz, Secretaria Dones, Comissions Obreres de Catalunya: Los tiempos laborales y sociales. Intervenir sobre la doble presencia
- Maria José Maurício : Temps de travail, conciliation et santé, Parcours, propositions et lutte des travailleuses et de la CGTP-IN au Portugal
- Liliana Cunha, Marta Santos & Carla Barros, CPUP : Ce que peut révéler le dialogue avec des conductrices de bus, dans le contexte d’une activité traditionnellement masculine
- Dominique Cau-Bareille, MCF en ergonomie à l’Université Lyon2, Laboratoire de recherche ECP – CREAPT : Les enseignantes à temps partiels font-ils l’objet de discriminations dans les établissements du second degré ?
- Št?pánka Lehmann, Research Institute for Labour and Social Affairs (RILSA): Work-Life Balance in (Central and Eastern) Europe from the Perspective of Women‘s Health Findings from the European Working Conditions Survey
- Siyka Kovacheva, University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria: The Issue of Work-Life Balance in Bulgaria
Workshop 5
- Michelle Paiva, doctorante en sociologie Université Paris 8, chargée d’études CRESPPA-GTM, chercheure associée GISCOP93 : Dans la trame de la division sexuelle du travail: l’invisibilisation des atteintes cancérogènes à la santé, spécifique aux femmes?
- Sandrine Caroly, Catherine L’allain, Hassan Saibi, Eric Drais, Université de Grenoble : La rapport des travailleuses aux risques liés aux nanomatériaux : comment émergent les demandes d’intervention en ergonomie ?
- Purificación Morán, ISTAS, The gender dimension in workplace chemical risk management
- Eero Pukkala Finnish Cancer Registry, Nordic Occupational Cancer Study (NOCCA) : findings on the most frequent cancer localizations and occupations among women
- Helle Raun Andersen, Environmental medicine, Institute of Public Health, Denmark: Occupational pesticide exposure in pregnancy and children’s development
Workshop 6
- Joris Cools, Hogent: Factors Influencing Thermophysiological Comfort of Women’s Work Wear
- Dorothy Wigmore, Winnipeg, Canada: The same, only different: fitting the job to women’s needs
- Patrick Serafin, André Klußmann, Christoph Mühlemeyer, Inna Levchuk, Karl-Heinz Lang, Hansjürgen Gebhardt, Institute of occupational Health, Safety and Ergonomics e.V. – ASER, Wuppertal: Physical Strength: Results and Differences in Age and Gender
- Katharina von Rymon Lipinski (KAN) and André Klußmann (ASER) Operating forces on agricultural machinery Analysis and measurement of manual operating forces
- Claudia Narocki, ISTAS-CC.OO : Working conditions as barriers to women entering a men's world: the case of female aviation pilots
- Jan Peters, Past President, Women’s Engineering Society: Dressed to kill
- Paulo Santos (ASPP/PSP National Secretary) Women in the police forces: a brief history of a struggle for better working conditions
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