임금근로자의 산업재해에 대한 성인지적 분석

The statistics of occupational injuries and illnesses is one of the most important indicators of worker's safety and health in thefield of occupational safety and health. The conventional statistics was produced without consideration of gender difference. This studywas planned to investigate the difference of occupational injuries and illnesses by gender because that recently female workers wasincreased through the change of industrial structure such as from manufacturing dominated to service dominated structure. Statistics ofoccupational injuries and illnesses collected by workmen's compensation insurance system that have no information about gendercomposition of population. Economically active population survey was used to calculated the rate of occupational injuries and illnessesby gender. The distribution of estimated rate of occupational injuries and illnesses by industry, occupation and the type of accident weredifferent between male and female employees, but those by the size of enterprise, age of the injured, the duration of the first recuperation,and job tenure were similar between male and female employees. This study has shown that gender sensitive approach may be applied topolicy of occupational safety and health because that gender neutral perspective may not discover the fact of gender specific problems.