Reproductive Health from a 'Women and Work' Perspective: Issues for Consideration

Abstract

The existing structural nature of women's work (domestic as well as non-domestic) has severe built-in hazards for women (reproductive and otherwise) which no amount of first rate quality of care, total coverage and/or access to health services alone can deal with.

The above also has implications for the unqualified demand being made for increasing women's wage employment because of the observed statistical correlation between increase in women's outside employment and decrease in birth rates. The question not simultaneously addressed by demographers particularly is at what costs to women's health such demographic outcomes occur.