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The present research explores the womanhood issues at workplace with specific reference to the basic amenities in the police station; and we aimed to evaluate the occupational well-being of policewomen. For this, forty three (n = 43) women police personnel of mixed age and ethnicity, deployed at the women police station of Pan bazaar, Guwahati, responded to a bipartite questionnaire, which envisioned their present workplace scenario and issues therein. Descriptive analysis was undertaken to understand the problems tackled by women personnel in the police station. Review of the situation and observations obtained through questionnaires revealed the basic inconveniences of policewomen in terms of lacking basic amenities like conveniences and passable privacy at workplace. Ergonomic interventions were proposed after thorough scrutiny of the situations and possibilities to recover from them, and were thus intended to aid policewomen to lessen their problems hindering their well-being.
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Bora, S., Chatterjee, A., Chakrabarti, D. (2018). Workspace Amenities for Assam Policewomen: Ergonomic Interventions. In: Ray, G., Iqbal, R., Ganguli, A., Khanzode, V. (eds) Ergonomics in Caring for People. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4980-4_20
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