Last updated on March 4th, 2022 at 09:13 am
Women’s Health Resources
Women have significant exposure to agricultural work and therefore related health and safety risks from farm exposures. 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.”
AgriSafe’s work in women’s health is generously funded in part by Central States Center for Agricultural Safety and Health.
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 (Recorded March 30, 2020)
- Eliminating Workplace Violence in the Field for Employers (December 2, 2021)
- More Than Milk: Strong Bones and Injury Prevention for Aging Women in Ag
- Reducing the Risk of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes and Perinatal Illness for Female Ag. Producers (December 16, 2020)
- Respiratory Protection Program Overview in COVID-19 and Beyond (June 30, 2021)- Presentation Slides
- Safety in the Field: Addressing Workplace Sexual Harassment for Farm Workers
- What to Expect While Expecting- For Female Producers & Farmworkers in Ag (February 16, 2022)
- Zoonotic Disease and Pregnancy: A Deeper Dive
Websites
Page updated: July 2021
