Abstract
Pesticides are unique chemicals, that deliberately spread in the environment and their toxicity has limited selectivity species.The Republic of Kazakhstan is a region where cotton is one of the most important sectors of agricultural production and textile industry, which in recent decades is experienced a new rise. Women are made up the largest part among the workers of this industry, which is concentrated in the south. For a long time in the cotton industry have been widely used organochlorine pesticides. The article presents a literature review of the effect of organochlorine pesticides on the human health, including the reproductive system.