What groups are likely to experience higher incidence of RSI?
A. Undoubtedly, women still hold the majority of keyboarding jobs since the computer revolution. Unfortunately, most of their chairs, tables, and other ergonomically important accessories are scaled to antiquated male proportions. More importantly, regardless of the worker’s gender, even the most healthy work habits can be overcome by poor ergonomics. The quality of workstation ergonomics is also inevitably linked to office economics. For example, departments on tight budgets are less likely to provide proper computer workstation furniture, less likely to control workload dynamics and crises deadlines, and less likely to appreciate reports of dangerous working conditions and RSI injuries. Assuming that women disproportionally hold lower paid, high production, high stress jobs with less work flow control, it would be no surprise that gender is a significant variable in the RSI incidence formula. Long-standing issues of discrimination against women in the workplace and health care indust
