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Board games: sexist bias at the workers’ compensation board

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Karen Weisberg
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Vol 9, No.4
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Women Healthsharing
Publication Date: 
1988
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Toronto, ON

This article discuses the challenges women claimants experience due to sexism.  Illustrates how The Workers Compensation Act responds to claimants work at home vs outside of the home. Shows how sexist systems work together to create more stress for women post injury in the workplace,  via the medical and the legal systems. 

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