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Women more vulnerable to stress at work

By SiliconIndia,Saturday, 24 July 2010, 00:03 Hrs
Bangalore: Across roles, more women experience unreasonable amount of stress than men do. 56 percent women said their stress level was reasonable, while 26 percent felt they were under unreasonable stress, according to a survey conducted by Kenexa Research Institute.

While doing front-line supervisory jobs, women experienced 10 percent additional stress than their male counterparts who carried out the same kind of functions. In service and production-related jobs, women felt 8 percent additional stress, reports Mini Joseph Tejaswi from Times News Network.
Women more vulnerable to stress at work


The study revealed that factors including work-life balance, doing exciting work, having a respectful manager, being paid fairly and having a clear career path had a direct impact on the work stress among women. Looking at the difference between genders, results show that women work stress is more related to managerial support and equal opportunity, whereas men's stress drivers focus more on product quality and trust in senior leadership.

"This research may partially explain why there are fewer women in the management roles. The media and academia have substantiated the existence of the glass ceiling. Women fight the commonly held perception that they may lack the motivation to climb the corporate ladder, and our data indicate that fewer women feel that achieving career goals are likely while maintaining a balance between personal and professional lives. All these factors increase stress levels for women workers. Again, women are more open to report stress conditions, compared to men," said Brenda Kowske, research consultant, Kenexa Research Institute.

The survey was carried out in 19 countries, including India, which found out that more women experienced unreasonable amount of stress than men did. While doing front-line supervisory jobs, women experienced 10 percent additional stress than their male counterparts who carried out the same functions. In service and production-related jobs, women felt 8 percent additional stress. At middle and upper manager level, the stress levels were up by 6 percent as compared to men.

Payment parity, equal opportunities, career growth and fair performance assessment are some of the key concerns that kept working women under unreasonable stress. Results show women work stress is more related to managerial support and equal opportunity, whereas men's stress drivers focus on product quality and trust in senior leadership.

   
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3: The basic reason for higher stress for women are multifolds, namely:
Right of equality - resulted in complete budan sharing - now a norm in the society.
Assuming a role of bread earner in the shadow of right of equality, thus challenging the basic thread of the society.
Incompitent males who can not or willing to meet the requirements of the family and wish to lead a false life and show what they dont possess.
Increasing requirement of finance to make the two ends meet.
In case women assume the role of soft & support earner to stisfy the requirement on personal as well as on professional front with clear understanding (barring compelling cases) with the respective families and partners, this will result in relaxed healthier working. Under these circumstances the male has to be more realistic and answerable.


Posted by: SUNIL S BAWA - 27 Jul, 2010

4: She has to care about her family. No body bother she is earning. when matters come to family she is sole responsible to maintain, smile, invite, treat and hospitality. who cares about the women. Even children dont respect them. And she may not able to mingle with other staff being women. If she move she has to face so many comments. Even she dared the response from the co male staff will be rubbish. So she has to be more strict with co staff. Thus she is used to be alert all time. And the male staff never share any necessary information with her. She is sidelined everywhere. She has to struggle to get even offically information. She is unable to know what is going around her. These are all to be resolved to make her perfect and do her work without any stress
Posted by: Jafar Ali - 27 Jul, 2010

5:Kaun se zamane ki baat kar rahe ho mere bhai?
 Amit replied to: Jafar Ali 
 post - 27 Jul, 2010

6: sahi bola pata nahi wo kazha pe abhi
 jitu replied to:  Amit 
 post - 29 Jul, 2010

7: My idea for why women work under more stress is little bit different. I agree with all the comments that says women have to look after their family and jobs equally, but one thing i would like to highlight is...how long it has been when women have actually started working outside and are treated as bread earner? Since ancient times, men used to go out to earn and they were basic bread provider...so they r evolved that way. Now, i wud say its still very new that women too have started going out and earning. Still evolution is taking place...and it will take few generations for better management of stress...i mean gene itself will take up what's best for women.

Men r less stressed at work coz no matter his wife, mom, sis are doctors, scientist or anything else, they r used to of having a perfect home coz it is all managed by female counterparts.

Scenarios are changing now a days, since females are going at work, due to frictions or sheer understanding they participate little bit in household activities and are more paitent in taking care of home....so this evolution too will take few generations.

Men and women can perform equally given no responsibilities on family front. How so ever is burdened with lotsa responsibilites will be under stress to perform both at office as well as home.

To avoid stress at office and to prove their abilities lotsa women are now choosing late marriages and kids...I dont know how this will effect human species in longer run :)
Posted by: Priyanka - 26 Jul, 2010

8:Amazing thoughts.. Kudos to you :)
 Ranajana replied to: Priyanka 
 post - 26 Jul, 2010

9: Women have more worrying nature than men. This is the basic reason behind their stress at work.
Posted by: Shailendra Gadge - 26 Jul, 2010

10:One should reason out why worrying nature is more in women. Its because the woman has to take care of the children (primarily, do the household work(which only women do in many cases) and also do their job.
 epsi replied to: Shailendra Gadge 
 post - 26 Jul, 2010

11: I think it is difficult to measure stress level. Stress in women may be because of many reasons, and not necessarily, because of work. The working women, today, take more responsibilities at work, home and society. They are more concerned about the family & children's, then working man do.
So, the stress in women may be because of balancing activity between personal life and work environment.
Posted by: Irshad Bahadursha - 25 Jul, 2010

12: I agree with research findings...As per my concern and in depth research on the view point, I can only comment that all these are due to attitude inhertited among the women from the nature. The Workplace stress must be optimal enough to culivate ones productivity in terms of performance. If it is stress level goes up it affect the workoutput in negative side due to being metal peice disturbed. if stress is less than the optimal lebvel, employees become more litharzic. Now the in case of women, by birth they feel higher responsibility about the work-life both.They alway try to balance the work and life responsibilitties. If challenges occure during the women's, they try to make it done with responsibility(as there attitude nurtured to face it). If it seems that work would not be managed or feeling lack of confidance (momentarily or permanentaly), it causes increase in stress level. of corse if the stress level crosses its barries, this impact on the perfomance of the women in negative side.

And in the organizations women employeed at front desk of the company with challenges, they would be more stress. Any women emplyeed with clear role and responsibilities and even with planned challenegs would easy able manage the responsibilit and their stress too.

Posted by: Vinay - 25 Jul, 2010

13: the main thing is that women are able to do everything. and if we think that women are getting more stress in work field so it's absolutely ri8. if we talk abt glass ceiling so it's happened in corporate world now a days. i think men fear that if women work well and getting top position so the importance of man will going down. they don't want to do work under woman head. they have to change their mentality.....
Posted by: priyanka - 25 Jul, 2010

14: IT IS THE GENDER DIFFERENCE THAT WILL BE CAUSE OF MORE STRESS WHEN COMPRED TO MEN AND ALSO IN DOMESTIC FRONT THE LEVEL OF WORK IS DIFFERENCE AND BEARING OF CHILDERN ANOTHER ONE AND LACK OF CONCETRATION WORK SPOT AND INTELIGENT WAY OF DEALING THE MATTERS RELATED TO WORK SPOT AND IT IS EVIDENT THAT THE WOMEN FACE A LOT PROBLEMS IN AND OUTSIDE WORK SPOT AND CANNOT COMPETE WITH MEN IF THEY IN ONE WAY OR OTHER THEY ARE ADJUSTED TO DESK WORK AND LEAVE THE OFFICE EARLY AND IF SHARING OF WORK BETWEEN MENT AND WMMEN BOTH IN WORK SPOT AND DOMESTIC FRONT THE LEVEL OF STRESS IS MINIMISED FOR A LITTLE.
Posted by: P.R.MALLESWARA RAO - 24 Jul, 2010

15: The mindset in corporate world that investing in women is a waste coz they will eventually lean towards family or give family the priority leads to difference in pay scales , lack of respect from seniors ,etc . This further strengthen the women mind to give more attention to family as work is professionally unsatisfying. This vicious cycle has to be broken. The day women get the same respect as the male counterparts I 100% sure women will not only both family and work but excel in there diverse roles. This needs change at the society level wife the husband give his full support to his better half and then the saying " BEHIND EVERY SUCCESSFUL WOMAN THERE IS A HAND OF A HUSBAND/MAN " . I am sure it will happen , just hope it does before the concept of Family itself becomes obsolete.
Posted by: Raman Manglik - 24 Jul, 2010

16: Blame Comes Naturally, Name calling is also game played by Human-being...The Main factors in Performance are..Conditioning and the Environments. Remaining all is the Mind and Words exchange, to Prove individual Reason.
Posted by: Mohan. - 24 Jul, 2010

17: Whatever I know about the women and men. I can understand why it is so. The reason behind more stress may be this.
The insecurity:- while working man have to work only but in the case of the women they have to protect them self from Office Romioes, women are more conscious about their image then men so they are having the insqurity of damaging the image.
Responsibility: - Why man having lesser stress then women are only because of women. They know that they have to earn. But in the case of the women they not even responsible for earn although they are equally or more than that are responsible to run the home.
Physical Features:- The physical features of women are weaker than a man. They are shorter then man. They are having medical problems too. Like pregnancy and all.
Note:- After all this things if we see the women then it shows that they are having guts to challenge and to accept the challenges.
Posted by: Avinash Verma - 24 Jul, 2010

18:Hey Avinash, nicely expressed
 anitha replied to: Avinash Verma 
 post - 29 Jul, 2010

19:Hi Avinash,
I have gone through all the 30 comments and yours is perfect and I except it.
 Rohith replied to: Avinash Verma 
 post - 26 Jul, 2010

20:Very Well Said Avinash..Wish everyone could think like you.
Thank You...
 radhika replied to: Avinash Verma 
 post - 25 Jul, 2010

21:Well said Avinash! I am thankful to you for bringing the real concerns of woman.
 Simantika Mishra replied to: Avinash Verma 
 post - 24 Jul, 2010

22: Yes, what Avinash is saying is absolutely true, I'm 100% agree with his veiws. Because, working woman has to always play dual responsibility roles & it does not matter whether her boss is man or woman.
 KASHINATH SATAV PATIL. replied to:  Simantika Mishra 
 post - 24 Jul, 2010

23: Being fragile by nature women are facing problems, Femininity is great curse for working women and its boon to
house-wives.
rajiv agarwal
Posted by: RAJIV AGARWAL - 24 Jul, 2010

24: Naturally women are weak in mental and physical abilities and that is why we call them weaker sections...moreover,women take much responsibilities very seriously...the fear that they have on their responsibilities make them leaders in academic life and stress filled in their corporate life..
Posted by: hari narayan - 24 Jul, 2010

25:Hari Narayan is not capable of understanding a women.He has to recall that he got a life bcoz of a woman i.e his mother.Womans r no way less than Men.They can handle both office work as well as household works which men can't do.
And I say thanks 2 Avinash Verma.
 Amruta KB replied to: hari narayan 
 post - 25 Jul, 2010

26:hari
i disagree that women are weaker in mental ability,but they take the job with much responsibilty and physically weak so they are more vulnerable to stress than men
 swarna replied to: hari narayan 
 post - 24 Jul, 2010

27:Weaker section!Haha.You gave us a good laugh.Emotionally men can never match women.Men have ego problems and superiority complex that threatens them whenever their 'better' half does better.They can barely accept the success of one woman in their house, forget dealing with all the women they encounter at workplace surpassing them in most aspects. Remember one thing- God made men more physically strong to protect them and God made women physically weaker thus softer to have the tenderness of a mother, wife and sister! And if you are familiar with the Hindu mythology, women goddesses have come to the rescue of the male Gods when all have failed! Its not the question of who is weak. Its about establishing the balance of life which people with your cerebration fail to acknowledge!
 Puja Hait replied to: hari narayan 
 post - 24 Jul, 2010

28: Pooja,your views are more correct. it`s not a question of who is superior. One thing must be taken in to consideration, men and women are physically, biologically, mentaly different. So we can`t say that one has not ability to do such n such things. As you said, both are making balance in the nature.
 Cadinath replied to:  Puja Hait 
 post - 28 Jul, 2010

29: it is man who support woman in all sphere of life including work place , home and personal because they being fair sax, attractive and due to mean's nature to influence them by giving them favour. There are certain functions( like marketing and cordination ) in business place where man even can't think taking single step. But all these are till the woman is young and attracytive . What is after that....
 Vijandar replied to:  Puja Hait 
 post - 24 Jul, 2010

30: Let me not delve into who fawns favors from whom and goes how far!I think your thinking is below the ground level and you can't see beyond it! You are talking about looks! Did I get my engineering seat in the country's top university by my looks?or clear any job selection tests with my looks?Wake up! Or choose to sleep forever!
 Puja Hait  replied to: Vijandar 
 post - 03 Aug, 2010

31: Women are not even good to drive vehicles, so what to speak of other professions.

We are heading for a reverse gene module with women on top in every place. Equality to male counterparts never meant to be in competition mode always.

Women are better at home to manage kitchen, kids and husband, that is more glorious than any other job.
Posted by: KA Prabbu - 24 Jul, 2010

32:If your are such good driver of vehicle and professional responsibilities than why why you need woman's support to drive you in your life.
 Jyoti S. replied to: KA Prabbu 
 post - 29 Jul, 2010

33::-) , I can only smile at your comment.
Just one thing , just reverse the roles of men and women from birth itself in this society . You will see your name in this comment changed to a woman's name and you at the recieving end...
It is an environment and reluctance to equalise roles in this world.
 Sarika replied to: KA Prabbu 
 post - 25 Jul, 2010

34:I think,K.A Prabhu has got rather got some misconceptions about about women's driving ability.If he feels about Indian context,may be debatable issue,but at Western point of view ,he is totally mistaken.If I site my own example happened in the 2002,when I was in US,I attended a conference in the Ashland University -State of OHIO.After the conclusion of conference,we all about 70 delegates boared two VOLVO type,AC,busses,the first bus manned a male driver and the second bus in which I boarded was driven by a 40 plus hefty lady driver.She must have been a mexican or a spansh oirigin.Wonderfully drove the through the hilly terrain,all the night journey from OHIO state to NEWJERSY state.She drove 550 to 600 km drive in about 6 hours non-stop.Hats offt to the lady driver.Now we can conclude,if the conditions are made condusive like the western example I think Indian women are no less to their western counterparts.Since basically the anotomy is same in both cases.
 K.K.Nanda replied to: KA Prabbu 
 post - 24 Jul, 2010

35:Prabhu, too disappointing to hear the comments sound absolutely like a MCP. It seems to be frustration of having a women boss or more efficient women colleague who has probably gone ahead than you. Don't forget it applies to your own mother, sister and daughter. It also reflects your upbringing and respect for the females.
 XYZ replied to: KA Prabbu 
 post - 24 Jul, 2010

36: I agree.. Any time a woman does well in her profession,or is appreciated by any other senior colleague, it will be a common consideration that "she must have done something wrong, or else she is a woman, why shud she be appreciated/promoted?". Men were asses and will always remain so. This 2 people, Mr Prabhu and Mr Hari are 2 MCPs. Imagine having any of this 2 as bosses, then obviously the woman will be stressed and bursting at the seams.. We work, we balance home, we balance family, we balance kids and their futures, we take care of our hubby and their expectations, and to top it all off, there are Irritating MCPs in Office. We will be stressed more yaar..
 DRK replied to:  XYZ 
 post - 24 Jul, 2010

37: I do agree, Adapating undesirable life style and cultures are major reasons that people cought by stress. We have gret culture, values and norms that is our life gives wonderful life but now we are accepting undesirable style and culture which could not fit to the us. It creats gap that people could not take it. Now mostly female professionals do not want engage family affair, they prefer modern life, later this gives much conflicts and bitterness which is major soruce of stress.
 laxman  replied to: DRK 
 post - 24 Jul, 2010

38: i do agree we need to improve the work culture to give them spaces for relaxation but unfortunately it hampers the companys economy.................
so what is to be done...
 sahil replied to: laxman 
 post - 25 Jul, 2010

39: ha ha...your qoute(These 2 people, Mr Prabhu and Mr Hari are 2 MCPs. Imagine having any of this 2 as bosses, then obviously the woman will be stressed and bursting at the seams..)..too good.
 ASH  replied to: DRK 
 post - 24 Jul, 2010

40: hi, S practically there are stress in working women, but compare to male females can with stand and face it and react as per the situation required. studies and research can prove but not in all the levels, but only sometimes.

the stress level is shown by working women is basically they are not having a conveniencing to the opposite person either it is their seniors or juniors or customers or vendors. it should be balancing.

Male and female are good in handling stress it is not the male comparing female our brains are same, but as i said there is way of handling things, if we take this stress we can not handle our life, family people and finaly one day we will be under a life were we wont be knowing what we are doing and for whom we are doing and why we are doing.

S we should have money and run our family, life and our company and the position you are into.


please please we should understand that our wonderful planet and we, our people and entire universe will change if we change and know how we need to lead a life, whether he /she may be boss, employee or any body, finally they have family.

So let us not investigate about this and take the commanding on this. MALE and FEMALE are good in handling stress.

Let us c how to face the stress and enjoy day to day life.

Regards to all who read this and all the best.

MSR
+919449089745.
 mohan sunder  replied to: ASH 
 post - 24 Jul, 2010

41:Men and Women are not equal....A womens biological response is different to men's...generally(not always..smtimes it can be same also)....so it is only intelligence to understand these responses and use them accordingly rather than placing a man in a field wher women would do better and vice versa.....so the argument is like "crocodile is stronger or elephant"...keep arguing...
 Raves  replied to: mohan sunder  
 post - 25 Jul, 2010
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