Conference notes that the workforce in the Health sector is overwhelmingly female who often work in stressful and traumatic working environments. Additionally, caring responsibilities and maintaining the household disproportionately fall on women. This can negatively impact mental health and stress levels. Conference notes that health service group workers are also having to deal with various […]
Conference motions
Conference notes that the workforce in the community sector especially in the social care sector is overwhelmingly female. The additional pressures on women working in the community sector, especially low paid women have seen almost 3 in 5 of these women experience poor mental health where work is a contributing factor. However, for Black women […]