NORWALK, CA - Women in social service --- welfare, education, health care --- are at serious risk of assault on the job, according to a study by the Center for Women in Government at the State University of New York in Albany. About 260,000 women are victims of workplace rapes, beatings and other forms of violence each year, the researchers said. Assaults severe enough to warrant time off from work injured 58 of every 100,000 women in 1993. The comparable rate for men was 52 of every 100,000.The stu
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