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Researchers at the University of California at Davis School of
Medicine say that women lawyers who work more than 45 hours a week
have a threefold high risk of miscarriage than those women who work 35
hours a week. The survey of 584 women who graduated from the
university's law school shows that 48% report feeling stress - a high
predictor of miscarriage - much, most or all of the time, with 63% of
the women who work 45 hours or more a week expressing that feeling.
"Women traditionally have had to juggle the responsibilities of both
work and home, putting in extra hours to meet the demands," says Marc
Schenker, the chairman of the university's Department of
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine. "While women have managed to raise
families and to make tremendous progress in nearly all fields of work,
our study shows that there are negative health effects of working long
hours on the job rather than at home."
One of the problems seen by the research team is the fact that, for a
career such as the law, the most important developmental period is also
the peak time for delivering a child. "So many women are postponing
childbirth until their late 30s and early 40s because the current male
model of professional training and career development does not
accommodate women's role as childbearers," says Martha West, a
professor at the UC-Davis law school.
The research, which was supported by a grant from the March of
Dimes, appears in the June issue of the Journal of
Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
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