Chapter 20 Workspace Amenities for Assam Policewomen: Ergonomic Interventions Shilpi Bora, Abhirup Chatterjee and Debkumar Chakrabarti Abstract The present research explores the womanhood issues at workplace with specific reference to the basic amenities in the police station; and we aimed to evaluate the occupational well-being of policewomen. For this, forty three (n = 43) women police personnel of mixed age and ethnicity, deployed at the women police station of Pan bazaar, Guwahati, responded to a bipartite questionnaire, which envisioned their present workplace scenario and issues therein. Descriptive analysis was undertaken to understand the problems tackled by women personnel in the police station. Review of the situation and observations obtained through ques- tionnaires revealed the basic inconveniences of policewomen in terms of lacking basic amenities like conveniences and passable privacy at workplace. Ergonomic interventions were proposed after thorough scrutiny of the situations and possi- bilities to recover from them, and were thus intended to aid policewomen to lessen their problems hindering their well-being. Keywords Policewomen Á Jobsite amenities Á Workplace comfort Á Conveniences 1 Introduction Today’s women are essentially participating for men’s equivalence outside the family premises—including their contribution to the nation also by the virtue of their entrance into once male-dominating professions such as police forces, which is still to a great extent considered to be one of the most masculinized occupations and S. Bora Á A. Chatterjee (&) Á D. Chakrabarti Ergonomics Lab, Department of Design, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, North Guwahati, Distt Kamrup, Assam 781039, India e-mail: drachatterjee@iitg.ernet.in S. Bora e-mail: shilpi.bora@iitg.ernet.in D. Chakrabarti e-mail: dc@iitg.ernet.in © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018 G.G. Ray et al. (eds.), Ergonomics in Caring for People, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4980-4_20 153