The essay proposes some reflections concerning the protection of health and safety at workplaces by a gender-based perspective. Recent statistics and studies show a growing rate of accidents at work between working women, but for a long time the widespread approach to such topics has been gender-blind. The Author notes that is necessary to change such perspective, by adopting a renewed conception concerning these issues, which might be gender-oriented and might envisage the possible disparate impact of risks and accidents at work on women and men, looking also at how these could be related with the persistence of many difficulties for working women in managing the life/work balance.
Keywords: Diritto del lavoro, salute e sicurezza sul lavoro, rischio, questioni di genere, lavoratrici