AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON FACTORS INFLUENCING THE PERSONAL CAUSES OF STRESS (PCS) OF WORKING WOMEN IN CHENNAI CITY Mr. P. Balaji*, Mr. N. Ramki** *Research Scholar, Department of Commerce, University of Madras, Chennai - 05 **Research Scholar, Department of Commerce,Guru Nanak College, Chennai - 42 INTRODUCTION Stress is a part and parcel of everybody’s life. Though it is both men and women who deal with stress, it is women who tend to be its most common victims. It is particularly the working women who find them struggling with stress more than others. In recent times, working women not only acts as home maker but also as professional who contribute 46% of total workforce in India. As per socio cultural environment in India, women are also expected to perform social responsibilities of home makers. In the traditional society, women’s role was naturally limited to the family. Since she was the bearer of children, and was fully occupied with her duties as a mother and homemaker. This was no small feat, since the traditional household may be described as both a production and a consumption unit. Many factors like urbanization, technical progress, women’s education, etc., have profoundly changed these traditional conditions even in a developing country like India. The production side of women’s work at home is gradually decreasing leading to a reduction of women’s role at home. Thus, working women across the world, specifically in India exposed with stressors from socio
“Working Women and the Triangle Fire” by Elizabeth Burt begins by providing detailed information about hard-working, exploited women in the labor force. The article describes previous attempts of women factory workers to organize to protest injustice, and also explains that “the press had sporadically covered these attempts” (Burt 190). Next, the author provides specific examples of the work of journalists who wrote about frustrated women workers, but states that these articles mainly appeared in the women’s sections of newspapers. Workers had the most success by participating in labor actions (Burt 190). The article describes that when the press covered most labor movements, focus was placed on negotiations, violence, or the character of the
World War II, in which the United States was involved from 1941 to 1945, was a welcome distraction from the widespread financial ruin of the Great Depression, despite the death and destruction that it caused. Many Americans, though initially reluctant to join the war for fear of becoming embroiled in an exclusively foreign conflict, became passionate supporters of the war effort after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. United through patriotism, millions of men and women of all races volunteered to serve in the military. Americans on the home front rallied around the war effort as well, contributing in a variety of ways, including taking jobs in defense industries, conserving food and resources, and recycling items for use in war production.
Hendon and Brumfiel both discuss how we in a modern society, can’t properly separate the difference private and public, the transformation between work and homemaking, and the similarities between production and maintenance. (Brumfiel, 226) Hendon focuses in on the issues raised by feminist anthropologists including Brumfiel about the definition of the terms domestic and household. Hendon discusses how research on archaeology of the household, gender and craft stratification is vitally important to the study of the organization and development of domestic labor and the changes in society it brought. It is commonly thought that households dominated much of everyday life, in that the family itself produced much of what was consumed and exchanged mutually between neighboring families. Some specialization of skills and exchange existed, but they were apparently concentrated on special tools and social valuables including cooking and weaving.
Also exclusive was their “sphere,” or domain of influence, which was confined completely to the home. Thus the Cult of Domesticity “privatized” women’s options for work, for education, for voicing opinions, or for supporting reform. The true woman would take on the obligations of housekeeping, raising good children, and making her family’s home a haven of health, happiness, and virtue. All society would benefit from her performance of these sacred domestic
Have you ever been told that you couldn't do something because of your race or gender? This is what many women went through before the 19th amendment was passed, they were being discriminated because of the gender and race. During the Progressive Era, people fought to change issues such as, issues with city living, lack of right for groups of people, and working conditions. Due to the large amount of people that moved to cities, the government passed the city management law. Because of the big issues with women not being able to vote and do things because they're women the 19th amendment was passed.
Furthermore, today more than half of all women work outside the home. This can be only seen less in India as all women are considered less than men. In Canada, segregation, and low pay still exists in Canada as it does in India. In Canada, the idea that women belong at home in people’s mind causes these issues such as discrimination, and low pay in the labour force. Today women have one unpaid job at home, and one low-paid job in the labour force.
Compassion, diversity, self-development, community, and inclusion: the foundational pillars of the Working Women Community Center (“Working Women Community Centre”). Imagine arriving at a foreign country, one that’s about to be your new home, knowing little to nothing about what your new life is going to look like. That is a shared sentiment amongst immigrant women trying to assimilate into a Canadian lifestyle. The Working Women Community Center (WWCC) is an organization that gives women the support they need to transition smoothly to their new life. Not only do they offer programs to facilitate this change, but they also provide the women and their families economic relief in a time of financial constraint.
The role of the traditional housewife was very prominent in the 30s compared to the more gender-neutral roles in the household of today. Although a lot of people are beginning to mix gender roles and make certain jobs gender-neutral, the typical model of a traditional family is still expected out of many
In the 21st century, women must have a career and job to support a family compared to the 1950’s when women had the choice to be a stay at home mother or have a career. Spigel states, “Like Donna Reed, who sacrificed her nursing career for life with Dr. Alex Stone […]” (Spigel 224) the author is indicating that most women during the 1950’s decided to be a homemaker because that was what society expected of them. Television emphasized and valued the role of the ideal wife and a homemaker. Furthermore, TV shows like The Donna Reed Show illustrated wives to be marginal at home and central to the economy. Haralovich states, “In her value to the economy, the homemaker was at once central and marginal” (Haralovich 70).
In her conventional view, a woman must support her husband by creating an organized home and nurturing him. Women are not only in charge of doing the housework and childcare, but they have their own individual dreams they want to reach. It is discriminatory towards women when they live under the social expectations of being uneducated and a supported wife. From the textual support, it is evident that women struggle to reach their individual goals under a male-dominant society that require women to be
Annotated Bibliography Gender equality in the workforce is a subject that has been researched throughout the years. Following the Civil Rights Movement in 1964 when sexual discrimination was outlawed, and in 1967 when President Johnson amended the bill in 1967. Researchers believe that discrimination is a thing of the past. Although, in 2012 Walmart faced nationwide lawsuits for discrimination (Hines, 2012).
Women’s role of “homemakers” was deeply emphasised and they were considered weak compared to men, which advertisements and media particularly shoved into people’s
Use a Feminist Approach to show how organizations maintain hierarchy and inequalities today Introduction A feminist is defined as a person who supports feminism and feminism is simply the quest or the belief in the social, political and economic equality of sexes. In this essay i am going to dwell on how different organizations demonstrate inequality against women in the working environment and other different organizations such as churches, Law firms and business companies using different feminist theories. Feminist theory uses the conflict approach to examine the strengthening of gender roles and inequalities, highlighting the role of patriarchy in maintaining the oppression of women. Nowadays selection of a candidate for a position in an
No one can deny that stress can be caused by many reasons. For instance, you may not like your job, money matters, quarrel with your boy or girl friend, stress is something that you cannot avoid. Generally, stress attacks when you start thinking that you are the victim of circumstances or most importantly when you feel that a situation, things, or work will not be solved by you, that’s when you place yourself under stress. However, fortunately stress has a solution within the world and their easy ways to reduce stress in your life.
Stress refers to a dynamic interaction between the individual and the environment. In this interaction, demands, limitations and opportunities related to work may be perceived as threatening to surpass the individual's resources and skills. Stress is any physical or psychological stimulus that disturbs the adaptive state and provoked a coping response The increasing interest in stress research is probably because we live in a world that includes many stressful circumstances and stress has been a global phenomenon. It has become an integral part of life and is said to be the price we all pay for the struggle to stay alive.