Saturday, 5 May 2012

SOCIOLOGICAL OBSTACLES INCREASE STRESS OF WORKING WOMEN


This paper examines the social obstacles which increased stress of working women. To achieve the objectives of the study 120 working women were selected randomly from professional categories namely teachers, engineers and doctors with 40 respondents in each category. They were interviewed with the help of interview schedule. For analysis of data percentage, mean score, rank order and correlation coefficient were computed. The result showed that the major stressors for working women were lots of work, wrong policy of office, low amount & not get salary on time and work with whom they disliked and unexpected guest, child's bad habit, loneliness and their future, traditional customs and strain due to dual role responsibilities were obstacles at home perceived by all categories of respondents with different mean scores. Due to these factors they were faced different psychological problems. Study also revealed that teachers and engineers were highly stressed due to their home and workplace environment. But doctors were not stress due to home and workplace environment
By Shilpa Kaushal, Mukta Garg and Veena Shahi
(Full article is published in Voice of Research-An International Journal)

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