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Show Laws Governing Women's Employment and Status 245 Eleven States prohibit the employment of women in other places or occupations or under certain conditions: Arizona-In occupations requiring constant standing. Colorado--Working around coke ovens. Massachusetts-Working on cores over 2 cubic feet or 60 pounds. Michigan-Handling harmful substances; in foundries, except with approval of the Department of Labor; operating polishing wheels, belts. Minnesota-Placing cores in or out of ovens; cleaning moving machinery. Misrouri--Cleaning or working between moving machinery. New York--Coremaking, or in connection with coremaking, in a room in which the oven is in operation. Ohio--As crossing watchman, section hand, express driver, metal molder, bellhop, gas- or electric-meter reader; in shoeshining parlors, bowling alleys as pinsetters, poolrooms; in delivery service on motor-propelled vehicles of over 1-ton capacity; in operating freight or baggage elevators if doors are not automatically or semiautomatically controlled; in baggage and freight handling; by means of handtrucks, trucking and handling heavy materials of any kind; operating emery wheels, belts; in blast furnace and smelter. Pennsylvania-In dangerous or injurious occupations. Washington-As bellhop. Wisconsin-In dangerous or injurious occupations. majority of States with occupational limitations for adult also have prohibitory legislation for persons under 21 years. In addition, 10 States have occupational limitations for persons under 21 only. Most of these limitations apply to the serving of liquor and to the driving of taxicabs, school buses, or public vehicles; others pro hibit the employment of females under 21 years in jobs demandin oonstant standing or as messengers, bellhops, or caddies. The women 113. Seating 10 and Weightlifting A number of jurisdictions, through statute, minimum wage orders, regulations, have established employment standards for and other relating to plant facilities such as seats, lunch rooms, dressing and rest rooms, and toilet rooms, and to weightlifting. Only the in this summary. seating and weightlifting provisions are included District of the Columbia, and Puerto S.eatirng.-Forty-five States, Florida 1-the but all law-apply exclusively Rico have seating laws; to women. Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Mississippi, and North Dakota have no seating laws. or Weightlifting.-Twelve States have statutes, rules, regulations, women employees maximum the which weight specify wage orders lift and carry. Following are the are permitted to lift, carry, or women 10 See footnote 4, p. 238. |
