OCCUPATIONAL REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH RISKS

The potentially harmful effects on women of certain workplace exposure s are widely appreciated, and steps to control these have included leg islative efforts such as right-to-know laws of well as corporate polic ies mandating selective restriction of fertile women, which are illega l under federal civil rights laws. This chapter reviews the various oc cupational health risks reproductive women face in the workplace but a lso considers the effects of other genetic, medical, social, infectiou s, and environmental factors which may be of even greater concern than most occupational factors.