The majority of women claimants are factory workers, although they are not usually employed for as heavy tasks or as hazardous operations men. However, this class of workers does not by any means suffer all the accidents that befall the working woman. Close seconds in the compensation cases are janitors and houseworkers of every variety. Although domestic workers are not covered in the law, a majority of employers of large domestic staffs have voluntarily provided accident insurance for their employees. But strains, falls and infections occur also among white collar workers, sales girls, nurses, bakers, garment workers, waitresses, professional skaters, dancers and models.
Not all claimants are in the lower-salaried brackets. The department store buyer who received a fractured section of a vertebra in the stock room, a fashion editor who slipped on he deck of a liner on which she was sailing abroad, and an actress who was injured in a motor car accident are typical of professional workers seeking awards who have been on Miss Yerion's calendar.
"Although the proportion of women claimants is increasing, it is still true that women are engaged in less hazardous occupations than. men," it is explained by Miss Yerion. "They constitute one-tenth of the claimants, but from the latest statistics gathered by the Department of Labour they constitute one-fourth of the total of employed persons in this State."
She also pointed out that because compensation is based on the average earnings for the year before the accident, and because women's earnings are proportionately less than those of men, their share of the compensation awards in the year's total does not loom as large as might be expected. Moreover, statistics show that there are fewer deaths from industrial accidents among women than among men workers.
Rehabilitation of injured workmen and women to prepare them to take up their occupation again, once they have recovered, is the task of the after-care department, A number of cases which have suffered partial disability have had their earning ability restored, to some degree, through its services,
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