Hair and beauty work involves more than a service for aesthetic maintenance. Salon
workers represent a source of informal care and social support for clients which requires …

Background Sex trafficking victims often have touchpoints with salons for waxing, styling,
and other body modification services required by traffickers. Recently, some states have …

Purpose To investigate massage therapists' attitudes, consultation processes, and
confidence to respond to situations involving domestic and family violence (DFV) in clinical …

Despite significant government, business and community effort to promote workplace
gender equality, Australia's working women continue to earn less than men (ABS, 2023) …

During Australia's first nationwide lockdown due to COVID-19 in 2020, hairdressers and
barbers were allowed to remain operating while beauty salons and similar businesses were …

In some US regions, laws mandate violence training for salon professionals, but Indiana has
no current requirement. Our study surveyed 408 licensed salon professionals in Indiana to …

This paper reports on the findings of a policy feasibility study. The study examined the
feasibility of mandatory anti-domestic violence training legislation for Black communities in …

Across the world lockdowns during the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis saw the forced
closure of many hands-on services such as beauty salons, hairdressers, and barber shops …

The labour of hairdressing is far more than is demonstrated by the cutting, colouring and
styling of hair; it is about care for people. That makes the fact that hairdressing became an …

Through an ethnographic study of two beauty salons in London owned, run and frequented
by first-generation migrant women from India, Pakistan, Nepal and Afghanistan, this thesis …