Married Female Part-time Workers in Supermarkets

Part time female sex workers in a suburban community in Kenya: a vulnerable hidden population.

BACKGROUND In sub-Saharan Africa, female sex workers (FSWs) are a vulnerable high risk group for the acquisition and transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STI) and HIV. OBJECTIVES To study parameters of sexual behaviour and knowledge of STI and HIV, to describe health seeking behaviour related to STI, and to measure the prevalence of gonorrhoea, chlamydia, syphilis, and HIV-1, to p...

Cancer mortality among workers in the meat department of supermarkets.

OBJECTIVES The aim was to study the risk of dying from cancer among workers in the meat department of supermarkets potentially exposed to oncogenic retroviruses and fumes during the wrapping and labelling of meat. METHODS Cancer mortality for the period 1949 to 1989 was compared in a previously studied cohort of 10,841 members of a local meatcutters' union in Baltimore, Maryland who worked in...

The role of part-time social workers in general practice.

Work-Family Conflict among Married Female Professionals in Pakistan

Over the past few decades, a significant change in the nature of employment and family patterns has been observed globally. The objective of this paper is to determine how work requirements affect family by exploring the phenomenon of the work-family conflict (WFC) and how the family demands impinge the work life – the family-work conflict (FWC) by examining the key issues leading to this criti...

Comparing benefit costs for full- and part-time workers

Michael K. Lettau is an economist in the Office of Compensation and Working Conditions, Bureau of Labor Statistics. Thomas C. Buchmueller is an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Management, University of California, Irvine. Employers’ costs for total benefits grew roughly 50 percent faster than employee wages over the 1980–96 period, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Emplo...