Impact of occupational stress on working women and home environment Devi Olivia*, Bal Sharanbir Kaur Department of Family Resource Management, College of Community Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab *Corresponding author email id: oliviachabungbam.oc@gmail.com
Online Published on 18 March, 2024. Abstract Women who are working in various fields in different parts of India, faces problems at the workplace just by virtue of being women. Thus women find employment such as nurses, doctors, teachers, secretaries or on the assembly line easily suiting with their lives as working married women. The working married women have to accomplice their duties at two levels i.e., as working women as well as wives in their home. They have to face multiple responsibilities of work, the regular responsibilities at home front, taking care of family members and children along with the concentration at workplace and time punctuality at work. This automatically arise conflicts between the two. Looking at the rising number of stress among women an attempt was made to study the impact of occupational stress on working women and their home environment. A total sample of 150 women respondents belonging to nuclear families were selected which was categorized into three groups with respect to their profession i.e., 50 respondents each from private school teachers, private bank employees and nurses from private hospitals respectively. Impact of stress on working women and home environment was studied and they were grouped as psychological; physiological; effect on work performance, children's performance, husband and household affairs. Among the respondents the impact on physiological health is the most as compared to others followed by impact on maintaining the house. Top Keywords Environment, Impact, Occupational, Women. Top |