Notice of RetractionStudying Work among Married Women in Childbearing Age in Mosul

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The works through which the women are engaged are arranged into three groups, occupational, non-occupational (paid and unpaid) works. Women constitute a large proportion of the workforce worldwide. Women perform the majority of unpaid agricultural and domestic works in the world in general. The activities done during work are variable, such as sitting, standing, twisted movement, bending forward, backward, laterally, and lifting weight. The methods are prior to data collection; essential official permissions were obtained from Nineveh Health Office. The study was conducted among married women in childbearing age (15-49) years for a period extending from 1^st August 2006 to end of January 2007, using cross sectional study design. It was done in four randomly selected Primary health Care Center these were Al-Sukar center, Al-Sharqi center, A- Hadbaa center, and Al-Mansoor center and various employment sites located in the catchment areas of them. The questionnaire form included demographic characters, types of women work, forms of doing work, and work allowance. Results: It is noted that 40.8% of the total women were having occupational works. The prevalence of pregnancy among the married women in the present study was 20.5%. The employed women among pregnant mothers were 22.0% compared with 45.7% among the non-pregnant mothers. The study reveals that 20.9% of married women had the professional type of work. This type of work is more common among the pregnant, 41.3% of the women were tailors among women w- th non-occupational (paid)work. Household work of unpaid occupation formed 88.3% of the women. It is elicited that 80.2% of the women were standing continuously during work for more than 2 hours. Lifting heavy weight and recurrent turn movements during work more prevalent among non-pregnant. Conclusion: that most common type of work among married women in childbearing age was non-occupational (unpaid) type of work and recurrent movement was more among non-- regnant. Half of the women with occupational work had maternity leave.