Last updated on October 19th, 2021 at 01:48 pm
Women’s Health Resources
Women have significant exposure to agricultural work and therefore related health and safety risks from farm exposures (Donham, 2016). Leading occupational health hazards include acute injuries, pesticide exposures, agricultural dust exposures, zoonotic infections, negative behavioral health, and risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes and perinatal illness. Gender-based risks are related to key differences in size and stature that lead to increased physical strain and low maximal oxygen uptake.
According to the 2017 Agriculture Census, approximately 1.2 million women are agricultural producers, a number that has increased by over 26 percent since the previous Census. This increase has significant implications for needing targeted women’s agricultural health issues for health and safety trainings.”
Women’s Health Resources
Articles
Fact Sheets
- AgriSafe Pilates
- AgriSafe Yoga
- Ready to Farm
- Reproductive Health Exposures for Women in Agriculture
- Take Charge of Your Health: Women Working in Agriculture
Webinars
- Ag Specific Respiratory Exposures and Prevention for Women Working in Agriculture
- Best PPE to Protect Your Lungs
- Eliminating Workplace Violence in the Field for Employers
- Ergonomic Safety for Farm Women
- Hazard Communications Standards
- Safety in the Field: Addressing Workplace Sexual Harassment for Farm Workers
- Reducing the Risk of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes and Perinatal Illness for Female Ag. Producers
- What to Expect While Expecting- For Female Producers & Farmworkers in Ag
- Zoonotic Disease and Pregnancy: A Deeper Dive
Websites
Page updated: July 2021
