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Kathy Fitzpatrick and Christine Knott, scholarship laureates of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) Gender Team will present their study results during the next Web conference “Through a Gender Lens: Occupational Health and Safety Of Canadian Home Care Workers and British Columbian Fishery Workers”:
Monday April 30th - from 1:15 to 3:00 pm (Montreal time)
Please confirm your attendance (at Cinbiose or online) by e-mail at: rioux-pelletier.marie_eve@uqam.ca [3]
In Sickness and In Health: A Critical Literature Review of Canadian Home Care Workers’ Health Issues
By Kathy Fitzpatrick, PhD Candidate, Sociology Department, Memorial University
Home care work is one of the fastest growing occupations in our healthcare system and enables individuals to reside within their homes instead of residing within hospitals or long-term care facilities. Home care workers are predominantly women, and like many female-dominated occupations there is limited research on the occupational health and safety (OHS) of home care workers. This critical literature review of Canadian home care workers’ occupational health and safety research during the period 1996 to 2009 uses a gender lens to identify major themes, critically analyze and identify gaps in the research, and suggest future research topics.
A gendered analysis of the OHS of fishery workers: A comparative case study of aquaculture and capture fishery workers in British Columbia
By Christine Knott, PhD Candidate, Sociology Department, Memorial University
Despite the highly contentious nature of aquaculture in BC, the number of farm sites continues to grow at a steady rate. In contrast, the capture fishery in BC continues to decline just as steadily. As aquaculture products become a significant, if not dominant product in BC, as well as globally, what impact does this have on the occupational health and safety (OHS) of those who process the fish? And what, if any, are the gendered implications of this new processing industry? This paper explores how aquaculture processing plants differ from the capture fishery plants in rural BC, and how this may impact the fish processing industry, its workers and their OHS. It is based on preliminary research done in both capture and aquaculture processing plants in rural BC in the summer of 2010, which included in-depth, semi-structured interviews with plant managers, as well as two city mayors and the executive director of the BC Salmon Farming and Aquaculture organization.
These two presentations provide needed discussion on two groups of vulnerable and neglected workers who are involved in precarious work. Both presentations talked about the need for future research to examine the varied types of employment related geographical mobility that may affect the precariousness of work and OHS. Also highlighted by these presentations is the need for future research on these two groups of workers to use an intersectional approach that pays attention to the interactive ways that workers’ gender and/or sex, race/ethnicity, and age inform their work experience and OHS.
More details will be sent a few days before the conference.
Équipe des IRSC sur le genre, l’environnement et la santé
CIHR Team in Gender, Environment and Health
www.geh.ges.uqam.ca [4]
Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la biologie, la santé, la société et l'environnement (CINBIOSE)
Université du Québec à Montréal
C.P. 8888, Succ. Centre-Ville
Montréal (Québec) Canada H3C 3P8
www.cinbiose.uqam.ca [5]
1 (514) 987-3000 [6] poste 4757