Research should earn trust.
The Global Women and Work Study is being developed to investigate the connected journey across health, healthcare, treatment, working life, psychosocial impact, personal-life impact and what happened next.
Current status
The study is in development. Formal governance, ethics and participant processes will be confirmed before public research participation opens.
This is a governance framework draft, not a claim that ethics approval has already been obtained.
How we approach the Global Women and Work Survey.
Women Working Well is committed to collecting women's experiences responsibly, respectfully and transparently.
The Global Women and Work Survey is a voluntary initiative. Before taking part, participants will be given clear information about the purpose of the survey, what information is being collected, how responses will be used and how privacy will be protected.
Participation is voluntary. Participants may choose whether to take part and, where the survey design allows, may skip questions they do not wish to answer.
Responsible by design.
- Clear participant information and consent
- Collection limited to information relevant to the study
- Survey responses separated from optional contact information wherever practicable
- Secure handling and storage of survey information
- Careful reporting of findings and limitations
- Support information where questions may raise difficult experiences
Supported without turning participation into a commercial relationship.
Women Working Well is an Inca Safety initiative. Inca Safety supports the Global Women and Work Survey by contributing time, resources and infrastructure at no cost to participants.
The survey is not being run as a commercial lead-generation activity. Taking part does not create a commercial relationship with Inca Safety, and survey responses will not be treated as sales enquiries.
Different countries. Different languages. A shared research question.
Women Working Well aims to make the survey accessible to women across countries, cultures and languages. Where translated versions are offered, care will be taken to preserve the intended meaning of questions across languages.
Translations may be reviewed and tested before release, and the language in which a participant completes the survey may be recorded as part of the study methodology. Additional language versions may be introduced progressively as the survey develops.
The survey is not a mailing list.
Where optional contact details are collected for participation updates or other WWW activities, they should be kept separate from survey responses wherever practicable.
Women should be able to contribute their experience without being converted into a marketing contact.
What the findings can — and cannot — tell us.
Women Working Well will report findings with appropriate acknowledgement of the limitations of an open, self-selected survey.
Survey findings will not be presented as population prevalence where the study design does not support that conclusion. Associations and participant-perceived impacts will not be presented as proof of causation.
Listen carefully. Analyse carefully. Report carefully.
The purpose is to understand the journey between women's health, healthcare and working life — without claiming more than the information can support.
Practical safeguards still matter.
Before public launch, Women Working Well will complete the practical checks needed for a responsible survey.
- Final survey instrument and participant information
- Consent, privacy and data-handling settings
- Secure production hosting and technical quality assurance
- Pilot and comprehension testing
- Review of potentially distressing questions and support information
- Analysis and reporting rules
- Testing of translated versions as they are introduced
This page describes the current Women Working Well approach to responsible survey design, participation, data handling and reporting.