Abstract
Throughout the late 1970s and 1980s, many private sector employers adopted policies barring fertile women, usually defined as all women between the ages of 15 and 50, from any jobs that might expose them to known or suspected reproductive or hazards. Employers termed these policies fetal protection policies, and contended that excluding women from the workplace was necessary to prevent exposure to occupational toxins. This article attempts to evaluate the evidence upon which protection policies were based. After defining the relevant scientific terms, this article explores the existing federal regulations that aim at limiting both maternal and paternal exposures to reproductive hazards. It then examines the existing data on the effects of paternal and maternal exposure to occupational toxicants. This paper concludes that the evidence upon which protection policies were based does not definitively establish that excluding fertile women will eliminate the ...
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