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Women, workers of color facing safety risks at high-hazard jobs – News-Medical.Net

When exploring data on Washington workers during the pandemic — demographics, working conditions, wages and benefits, and risks of exposure to disease — the a…

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Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Oct 5 2020
When exploring data on Washington workers during the pandemic — demographics, working conditions, wages and benefits, and risks of exposure to disease — the authors of a new report found that women hold two-thirds of the jobs in the harshest category of work.
The big takeaway from our research is how particularly women are working under precarious conditions — a large number of women are both facing safety risks at high-hazard jobs and are econom…

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