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Working women and stress

Stress refers to the tension from the argument between the external environment and internal environment, guiding towards emotional and bodily pressure. In this fast-moving world, it is not viable to live without stress, whether it is a student or working women. Occupational stress is widely recognized as a major problem for both workers and the organizations that employ them. For workers, stress is frequently a factor contributing to accidents, job dissatisfaction, and illnesses such as coronary heart disease, alcoholism, and hypertension. 

Stress at work is quite a new perceptible fact of contemporary lifestyles. Job stress poses a load to physical health. Work-related stress in the life of controlled workers, consequently, affect the health of organizations. Job stress is a chronic disease caused by situations in the workplace that negatively influence an individual’s performance and/or overall well-being of her body and mind. Stress, either fast or steady, can bring risky body-mind disorders. Instant disorders such as nervousness attacks, worry, insomnia, tenseness and muscle pain can all result in chronic health problems. They may also have an effect on the immune system, cardiovascular and nervous systems and direct individuals to regular addictions.

This is the fresh generation of women, who needs to chase their dream career. But this life is not a couch of roses for everyone. Waken up at sharp 6 in the morning after retiring to bed late at night, crackling up a delicious breakfast for each one while getting the children all dress up for school, taking care of the sundry house needs that require her consideration that’s the average working woman’s home schedule for all. Things are not easy for her on the work frontage either. The collective-roles that women have to play these days, bring about energy leak both at the bodily as well as mental level.

Gender-specific work stress factors, such as sex discrimination and balancing work and family demands may have an effect on women workers above and beyond the impact of general job stressors such as job overload and skill under-utilization. Women may receive less on-the-job safety mentoring than men from supervisors and co-workers. This can create a potentially dangerous cycle in which tradeswomen are asked to do jobs for which they are not properly trained, then are injured when they do them or are seen as incompetent when they are unable to do them. 

A number of stress-reduction strategies have been shown to be useful for working women, ranging from the more common individual stress management techniques to higher-level interventions focused on removing the sources of occupational stress. Good leaders who are familiar with the symptoms of stress can manage situations to create more pleasing workplaces and to improve both efficiency and the bottom line. Corporate women who have served in all conditions distinguish stress when they monitor symptoms such as tiredness, loss of confidence, nervousness etc. Organizations should always ensure the mental well being of their employees by taking the necessary measures to avoid work overload, internal politics or conflicts between the employees. It would be a worthy thought if there are industrial counsellors hired in an organization.

 So
Dear Working Women,
Kindly leave your work pressure at the office and enjoy the time with your family. Your child needs you more than anyone in this world. If you wait for your retirement age to relax with family, you would regret horribly because you had earned enough money but not enough memories with your child. 

-Athira Abhin

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