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Article: Women and paid sick days: crucial for family well-being.(Report)
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- Fact Sheet Series
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
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Balancing work with personal and family health-care concerns is a major stressor for many working women. Women continue to be overrepresented in part-time and low-wage positions, those least likely to offer employer benefits such as paid sick days. Nevertheless, working women remain our families' primary caregivers. For too many women, being sick or having an ill family member presents an untenable choice: stay at work when you shouldn't, or lose pay (and perhaps a job) by staying home.
More than 22 million working women lack basic sick days benefits
* More than 22 million working women (22,416,000) do not have paid sick days (Table 1). (1)
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