ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on work-family health relationships among a small sample of Puerto Rican women in New York. It discusses these findings in the larger context of the status of Puerto Rican women, and within the framework of women’s work-family-health relationships. In the area of health status, information on Hispanic women is sorely lacking. Such analysis flows from an awareness of the dynamic interaction between available work, health status, and child care arrangements. In a major government report, health status trends among minorities and low-in-come groups were identified. The data did not, unfortunately, allow for comparisons with Hispanic women; however, it is probable that the general trend toward lower labor force attachment with poor self-rated health status holds true for Hispanic women as well. Occupatonal position and relative risk, however, also vary with social class, health status, and the availability and use of social support.
