Pesticide poisoning much higher among female farmworkers
Female farmworkers in the U.S. get acute pesticide-related illnesses and injuries at twice the rate of male farmworkers, according to researchers from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
Their paper "Gender differences in acute pesticide-related illnesses and injuries among farmworkers in the United States, 1998–2007," is posted online and explains that the gender difference in rates is confined to farmworkers who don’t directly handle pesticides.