My interest in work-related ill-health had more contemporary origins. I have had an academic and personal interest in women’s health in general for many years and in the early 1980s I became a member of a small women’s group who were concerned about the hazards women faced in their work. The necessity for a separate organization of women for women was the oft-repeated situation that many feminist groups have encountered in other areas of social and political life; the ‘work hazards movement’ was male dominated and it was difficult for women within it to get women’s concerns on the agenda
