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Karen Messing's Degrees

PhD Genetics University of California, Berkeley
Masters Genetics University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Genetics University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Karen Messing is a Canadian geneticist and ergonomist. She is an emeritus professor in the biological sciences at the University of Quebec at Montreal. She is known for her work on gender, environmental health and ergonomics. She was given the Jacques Rousseau Award in 1993, the Governor General's Award in 2009, and was named an Officer of the Order of Canada on December 27, 2019.

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Be the fairest of them all: challenges and recommendations for the treatment of gender in occupational health research. (2003) (372)
One-Eyed Science: Occupational Health and Women Workers (1998) (197)
Studying the relationship between low back pain and working postures among those who stand and those who sit most of the working day (2009) (174)
Sex, gender and women's occupational health: the importance of considering mechanism. (2006) (165)
Should studies of risk factors for musculoskeletal disorders be stratified by gender? Lessons from the 1998 Québec Health and Social Survey. (2009) (139)
Evaluation of exposure data from men and women with the same job title. (1994) (131)
Gender equality work and health: a review of the evidence. (2006) (111)
Distal lower-extremity pain and work postures in the Quebec population. (2008) (105)
Women's occupational health: a critical review and discussion of current issues. (1997) (95)
'Light' and 'heavy' work in the housekeeping service of a hospital. (1998) (94)
Cleaning Up After Globalization: An Ergonomic Analysis of Work Activity of Hotel Cleaners (2006) (94)
First steps for integrating sex and gender considerations into basic experimental biomedical research (2014) (93)
Are immigrants, ethnic and linguistic minorities over-represented in jobs with a high level of compensated risk? Results from a Montréal, Canada study using census and workers' compensation data. (2010) (84)
In vivo mutant frequency rises among breast cancer patients after exposure to high doses of gamma-radiation. (1985) (84)
Sex as a variable can be a surrogate for some working conditions: factors associated with sickness absence. (1998) (82)
Standing and very slow walking: foot pain-pressure threshold, subjective pain experience and work activity. (2001) (82)
She ate not the bread of idleness: exhaustion is related to domestic and salaried working conditions among 539 Québec hospital workers. (1990) (80)
Standing, sitting and associated working conditions in the Quebec population in 1998 (2005) (76)
Broken English, Broken Bones? Mechanisms Linking Language Proficiency and Occupational Health in a Montreal Garment Factory (2008) (75)
Menstrual-cycle characteristics and work conditions of workers in poultry slaughterhouses and canneries. (1992) (65)
Molecular characterization of 15 rearrangements among 90 human in vivo somatic mutants shows that deletions predominate (1987) (58)
Hospital trash: cleaners speak of their role in disease prevention. (1998) (56)
Exposure of nuclear medicine patients to ionizing radiation is associated with rises in HPRT- mutant frequency in peripheral T-lymphocytes. (1987) (53)
The weaker sex? Men in women's working conditions report similar health symptoms. (1987) (50)
[Invisible: Issues in Women's Occupational Health] (1996) (49)
Can safety risks of blue-collar jobs be compared by gender? (1994) (48)
When is light work heavy? Components of the physical workload of sewing machine operators working at piecework rates. (1992) (48)
Stratégies de conciliation d'un horaire de travail variable avec des responsabilités familiales (2001) (48)
Factors associated with dysmenorrhea among workers in French poultry slaughterhouses and canneries. (1993) (46)
Mutant frequency of radiotherapy technicians appears to be associated with recent dose of ionizing radiation. (1989) (46)
Star Wars and Strategic Defense Initiatives: Work Activity and Health Symptoms of Unionized Bank Tellers during Work Reorganization (1997) (46)
Is Sitting Worse Than Static Standing? How a Gender Analysis Can Move Us Toward Understanding Determinants and Effects of Occupational Standing and Walking (2015) (45)
Physical exposures in work commonly done by women. (2004) (42)
The 120-S minute: using analysis of work activity to prevent psychological distress among elementary school teachers. (1997) (41)
Are Women in Female Jobs for Their Health? A Study of Working Conditions and Health Effects in the Fish-Processing Industry in Quebec (1983) (40)
Underreporting work absences for nontraumatic work-related musculoskeletal disorders to workers' compensation: results of a 2007-2008 survey of the Québec working population. (2014) (40)
HPRT-mutant frequency and lymphocyte characteristics of workers exposed to ionizing radiation on a sporadic basis: a comparison of two exposure indicators, job title and dose. (1993) (38)
The aprt heterozygote/hemizygote system for screening mutagenic agents allows detection of large deletions. (1988) (38)
Indicators for choosing an optimal mix of major working postures. (2006) (38)
Comparison of the work activity of two mechanics: A woman and a man (1991) (37)
Chronic fatigue among bank workers in Brazil. (2002) (36)
Gender and occupational health. (2009) (36)
Work organisation and gender among hospital cleaners in Quebec after the merger of ‘light’ and ‘heavy’ work classifications (2012) (36)
Precarious employment conditions affect work content in education and social work: results of work analyses. (2007) (35)
Gender, women's work and ergonomics (2012) (33)
Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice: Health Effects of the Sexual Division of Labor among Train Cleaners (1993) (33)
Orthostatic symptoms, blood pressure and working postures of factory and service workers over an observed workday. (2008) (32)
Les conditions difficiles dans les emplois des femmes et les instances gouvernementales en santé et en sécurité du travail (1997) (31)
In vivo mutant frequency of technicians professionally exposed to ionizing radiation. (1986) (30)
Strategies used by women workers to reconcile family responsibilities with atypical work schedules in the service sector. (2011) (30)
Development of discomfort and vascular and muscular changes during a prolonged standing task (2013) (29)
Standing Still: Why North American Workers are Not Insisting on Seats despite Known Health Benefits (2005) (29)
Perimenstrual symptoms and working conditions among hospital workers in Quebec. (1995) (29)
Full-Time Homemakers: Workers Who Cannot “Go Home and Relax” (2010) (29)
Desegregation and occupational health: how male and female hospital attendants collaborate on work tasks requiring physical effort (2003) (27)
Prostitutes and chimney sweeps both have problems: towards full integration of both sexes in the study of occupational health. (1993) (27)
Ergonomic studies provide information about occupational exposure differences between women and men. (2000) (27)
Quebec Research on Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders : Deeper Understanding for Better Prevention (2014) (26)
Equality and Difference in the Workplace: Physical Job Demands, Occupational Illnesses, and Sex Differences (2000) (26)
Pain and Prejudice (2014) (26)
Action Research for the Health and Safety of Domestic Workers in Montreal: Using Numbers to Tell Stories and Effect Change (2011) (26)
Validation of questions on working posture among those who stand during most of the work day (2005) (26)
La pertinence de tenir compte du sexe des « opérateurs » dans les études ergonomiques : Bilan de recherches (1999) (23)
Qualitative Research Using Numbers: An Approach Developed in France and Used to Transform Work in North America (2005) (23)
Air quality during the winter in Québec day-care centers. (1992) (22)
Re: Messing K, Tissot F, Stock SR. Should studies of risk factors for musculoskeletal disorders be stratified by gender? Lessons from the 1998 Québec Health and Social Survey. Scand J Work Environ Health. 2009;35(2):96–112. (2009) (22)
Work activity in food service: The significance of customer relations, tipping practices and gender for preventing musculoskeletal disorders. (2017) (20)
Va te faire soigner, ton usine est malade : la place de l’hystérie de masse dans la problématique de la santé des femmes au travail (1990) (19)
Body maps: an indicator of physical pain for worker-oriented ergonomic interventions (2008) (19)
Les femmes dans les métiers non-traditionnels : le général, le particulier et l'ergonomie (2006) (19)
Strategies for Managing Work/Life Interaction among Women and Men with Variable and Unpredictable Work Hours in Retail Sales in Québec, Canada (2014) (19)
Taking Gender into Account in Occupational Health Research: Continuing Tensions (2014) (18)
Re: Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology. (2003) (18)
Impacts of considering sex and gender during intervention studies in occupational health: Researchers' perspectives. (2019) (18)
La place des femmes dans les priorités de recherche en santé au travail au Québec (2003) (16)
Les troubles musculo-squelettiques, la détresse psychologique et les conditions de travail au Québec : relations complexes dans un monde du travail en mutation (2006) (16)
Women in Procrustean Beds: Strength Testing and the Workplace (1996) (16)
Counting the minutes: administrative control of work schedules and time management of secondary school teachers in Québec. (2011) (16)
Do Men and Women Have Different Jobs Because of Their Biological Differences? (1982) (16)
Nuclear medicine patients do not have higher mutant frequencies after exposure to thallium-201. (1991) (15)
A Tale of Three Countries (1987) (15)
« On travaille à la seconde! » Rémunération à la pièce et santé et sécurité du travail dans une perspective qui tient compte de l’ethnicité et du genre (2008) (14)
Gender, work schedules and work/family regulation. (2011) (14)
Observing Inequality: Can Ergonomic Observations Help Interventions Transform the Role of Gender in Work Activity? (2018) (13)
Introduction: research directed to improving women's occupational health. (1992) (13)
Would a "one-handed" scientist lack rigor? How scientists discuss the work-relatedness of musculoskeletal disorders in formal and informal communications. (2008) (13)
On est là toutes seules (2002) (13)
Santé des femmes au travail et égalité professionnelle : des objectifs conciliables ? (2009) (13)
36 – Multiple Roles and Complex Exposures: Hard-To-Pin-Down Risks for Working Women (2000) (12)
La souffrance inutile : la posture debout statique dans les emplois de service (2004) (12)
Promoting health for working women (2008) (12)
Health and (2005) (12)
Introduction: women's occupational and environmental health. (2006) (12)
Effects of lymphocyte subpopulations on the clonal assay of HPRT mutants: occupational exposure to cytostatic drugs. (1994) (11)
Repetitive Strain in Nonrepetitive Work: A Case Study. (1995) (11)
Aides-soignants et aides-soignantes : la collaboration dans les tâches physiques lourdes (2002) (11)
« On est là toutes seules »: Contraintes et stratégies des femmes en contrat à durée déterminée dans l'enseignement aux adultes (2002) (11)
Sex and gender analysis in knowledge translation interventions: challenges and solutions (2020) (11)
Quelle est la relation entre les troubles musculo-squelettiques (TMS) liés au travail et les facteurs psychosociaux ?. Survol de diverses conceptions des facteurs psychosociaux du travail et proposition d’un nouveau modèle de la genèse des TMS (2013) (10)
One-Eyed Science: Scientists, Workplace Reproductive Hazards, and the Right to Work (1999) (10)
Conditions de travail et parcours dans l’entreprise. Vers une transformation qui intègre l’ergonomie et le genre ? (2016) (10)
L'invisible qui fait mal: Un partenariat pour le droit à la santé des travailleuses (2013) (10)
Time control, job execution and information access: work/family strategies in the context of low-wage work and 24/7 schedules (2017) (10)
Battle Fatigue: Identifying Stressors that Affect Counsellors in Women's Shelters (2004) (9)
Considering sex and gender in ergonomics: Exploring the hows and whys. (2020) (9)
« Pour être serveuse, tu dois avoir toute ta tête » : efforts et reconnaissance dans le service de table au Québec (2010) (9)
Changing mutant frequencies in cell populations subjected to long-term fractionated doses of radiation may reflect selection for radioresistance. (1986) (8)
The Importance of Not Standing Too Long (2013) (8)
“We work by the second !” Piecework remuneration and occupational health and safety from an ethnicity- and gender-sensitive perspective (2008) (8)
Integrating the Social Sciences and Humanities in the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (1999) (8)
13. Unions and Women’s Occupational Health in Québec (1993) (7)
CHAPTER NINE. Don't Use a Wrench to Peel Potatoes: Biological Science Constructed on Male Model Systems Is a Risk to Women Workers' Health (1995) (7)
L’étude de l’absence au travail a-t-elle un sexe? (1995) (7)
Protecting Pregnant Workers while Fighting Sexism: Work–Pregnancy Balance and Pregnant Nurses’ Resistance in Québec Hospitals: Protéger les travailleuses enceintes en luttant contre le sexisme: équilibre travail-grossesse et résistance d'infirmières enceintes dans des hôpitaux québécois (2017) (7)
Une analyse du travail de préposées à l’accueil pendant la restructuration des services de santé (1999) (7)
Is sex a proxy for mechanical variables during an upper limb repetitive movement task? An investigation of the effects of sex and of anthropometric load on muscle fatigue (2020) (7)
Women's Occupational Health and Andocentric Science (1994) (7)
A Feminist Intervention That Hurt Women: Biological Differences, Ergonomics, and Occupational Health: Une intervention féministe qui a nui aux femmes: différences biologiques, égalité, ergonomie et santé au travail (2017) (7)
Women’s Occupational Health: Resisting When We Can: Santé des femmes au travail: mobiliser quand c’est encore possible (2017) (6)
Relations between work and upper extremity musculoskeletal problems (UEMSP) and the moderating role of psychosocial work factors on the relation between computer work and UEMSP (2017) (6)
Looking and listening in a technical world : Effects of discontinuity in work schedules on nurses’ work activity (2004) (6)
Écouter et voir dans un monde technique : Effets de la discontinuité des horaires sur l’activité de travail des infirmières (2004) (5)
Understanding Women's Work: Steps toward Transformation—An Introduction (2007) (5)
Correspondence about Publication Ethics and Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology (2003) (5)
Les souffrances invisibles : Pour une science du travail à l'écoute des gens (2016) (5)
Genre et statistiques : est-ce que « l’analyse de grappes » peut nous aider à comprendre la place du genre dans la recherche de meilleures conditions de travail ? (2016) (5)
Si le bruit rend sourd, rend-il nécessairement sourde ? Le défi d’appliquer l’analyse différenciée selon le sexe à la recherche d’informations sur la santé et la sécurité du travail (2011) (4)
On veut travailler ensemble, mais c’est difficile. Obstacles organisationnels et sociaux au travail collectif en enseignement d’un métier à prédominance masculine en formation professionnelle au secondaire au Québec (2017) (4)
Is genome mapping the way to improve Canadians' health? (1990) (4)
Studies of mutation at the hprt locus (1989) (4)
Bridging between academia and the workplace: lessons learned about translational research on work-family balance (2019) (4)
« Travailler la nuit pour voir ses enfants, ce n’est pas l’idéal ! » : marge de manoeuvre pour concilier vie familiale et horaires atypiques d'agentes et d'agents de nettoyage du secteur des transports (2017) (4)
La santé des travailleuses : Les troubles musculo-squelettiques : TMS & lombalgies (2000) (4)
Indicators for all: including occupational health in indicators for a sustainable healthcare system (2006) (4)
Policy implications of the papers in the special issue of WORK concerning Work and family, produced by the IEA Gender and Work Technical Committee, 15 October 2010. (2011) (4)
Et si les femmes avaient le contrôle de la technologie (1996) (3)
[Go take care of yourself, your factory is sick: the place of mass hysteria in the problem of women's health at work]. (1990) (3)
18. Travail et genre (2004) (3)
A HindIII RFLP for the HPRT pseudogene on chromosome 3 (HPRTP1). (1987) (3)
The Data Gap in Canadian Women’S Occupational Health (2008) (3)
Integration of sex and gender in interventions by students in ergonomics (2022) (3)
Minimizing Risks for Women in Non-Traditional Jobs (1992) (3)
Pain Associated with Prolonged Constrained Standing: The Invisible Epidemic (2018) (3)
Should data on gender and ethnicity inform ergonomics interventions? Lessons from four case studies (2022) (3)
Gendering Work? Women and Technologies in Health Care (2009) (2)
[Follow-up in HIV-infected homosexual males with lymphadenopathy syndrome]. (1987) (2)
« Si ce n’est pas documenté, ça n’a pas été fait » : quand les indicateurs de gestion escamotent le travail invisible des femmes (2016) (2)
The “Woke” Ergonomist: How Can We, How Should We Improve Gender Equality as Well as Health? (2021) (2)
Facilitators and Obstacles to Sex/Gender-Conscious Intervention-Research on Occupational Health: Researchers and Partners Perspectives (2021) (2)
Why Do We Often Forget Gender During Ergonomic Interventions? (2018) (2)
Training M.Sc. Students in Ergonomics to Integrate a Sex/Gender-Sensitive Approach (2021) (2)
La santé des femmes au travail en Europe : des inégalités non reconnues par Laurent Vogel, Bruxelles : Bureau technique syndical, 2003, 387 p., ISBN 2-930003-48-0 aussi publié en anglais : The Gender Workplace Health Gap in Europe, ISBN 2-930003-49-9. (2004) (2)
Les tests de sélection : une course à obstacles vers l’égalité économique des femmes (2001) (2)
Il faut toujours en faire plus (2015) (2)
Women’s Place in Workplace Health Research Priorities in Québec (2002) (2)
L'invisible qui fait mal (2013) (2)
Changer la science pour les travailleuses (2000) (1)
Les fesses de femmes et la santé au travail (1991) (1)
Comment développe-t-on une pratique féministe en santé au travail? (1991) (1)
Do women and men in the same jobs have different physical exposures at work (2002) (1)
Overview of the "Gender & Work" track at the IEA 2021 congress. (2022) (1)
Les facteurs de risques sont-ils si différents pour les femmes ? (2008) (1)
Useless Sufferings: Static Standing Postures in the Service Sector (2004) (1)
Tracking the Invisible: Scientific Indicators of the Health Hazards in Women’s Work (1999) (1)
Research paperThe aprt heterozygote/hemizygote system for screening mutagenic agents allows detection of large deletions (1988) (1)
Recognizing university-derived and workers' knowledge in training programmes in ergonomics (1996) (1)
One Size Fits All … Men (2020) (1)
Methods for Considering Sex and Gender During Intervention-Research Studies: What Do Researchers Say? (2021) (1)
Chapter 39 – Multiple Roles and Complex Exposures (2013) (1)
Le travail en présence de rayonnements ionisants dans des laboratoires universitaires (1991) (1)
[≪ If it's not documented, it's not done ≫: Management indicators of workload can leave women's work invisible]. (2016) (1)
Rosalie Bertell, Sans danger immédiat? L’avenir de l’humanité sur une planète radioactive (1989) (1)
The health of female workers: is science still ‘one-eyed’? (2021) (0)
[Is the pregnant worker protected in Quebec?]. (1982) (0)
[Manifestation of AIDS in HIV infected homosexual males with lymphadenopathy syndrome]. (1989) (0)
BOOK REVIEWS (2001) (0)
Laura RobinsonBlack Tights : Women, Sport and Sexuality. Toronto, HarperCollins Canada, 2002, 248 p. (2002) (0)
Danger: Women at Work (1994) (0)
Understanding Women's Work: Steps toward Transformation—an Introduction (2007) (0)
How to carry out participatory research that takes account of sex and gender issues: a scoping review of guidelines targeting health inequities (2023) (0)
Observing Inequality: Can Ergonomic Observations Help Interventions Transform the Role of Gender in Work Activity? (2018) (0)
Is sex a proxy for mechanical variables during an upper limb repetitive movement task? An investigation of the effects of sex and of anthropometric load on muscle fatigue (2020) (0)
Female and Male Nursing Assistants (2002) (0)
Putting Our Heads Together: Academic and Feminist Approaches to Studying the Health of Women Workers (2016) (0)
Souffrances invisibles au travail (2018) (0)
The Invisible That Hurts (2013) (0)
Pour la reconnaissance du caractère pénible des emplois des femmes (1991) (0)
O37-2 Towards understanding relations among social inequalities, gender and working conditions associated with work-related musculoskeletal disorders (2016) (0)
Diversité des populations et TMS : causes, associations ou facteurs de confusion ? (2011) (0)
Les femmes, leurs soins, leurs médecins: Soignant-e-s/soigné-e-s : une relation neutre? La/le généraliste et la souffrance familiale : l'enjeu relationnel (2018) (0)
How Can Quantitative Analysis Be Used to Improve Occupational Health without Reinforcing Social Inequalities? An Examination of Statistical Methods (2022) (0)
Musculoskeletal and injury 4 (2007) (0)
But two-handed scientists are using only one hand now (2008) (0)
Genre, sexe et exigences physiques des emplois. Faut-il choisir entre égalité et santé ? (2014) (0)
Understanding the relationships between social inequalities and working conditions associated with work-related musculoskeletal disorders: implications for prevention (2015) (0)
Gender and work in ergonomics: recent trends (2022) (0)
Note de recherche : une ergonome face au corps des femmes (1992) (0)
Opening the Black Box of Work/Family Strategies Facing Low Schedule Control: A Relational Approach (2017) (0)

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