Do Women Experience More Occupation Stress Than Men?

Running Head: Stress Management

Do working women experience more occupational stress than men or just more occupational stressors?
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Executive Summary

Examines the sources of stress affiliated with male and female retail managers, a part identified as being hectic and where women are more likely than in other occupational parts to be managers. Self-completed questionnaires were circulated to males and females at various grades of retail management. The outcome verified the two study hypotheses: male and female managers described alike job stresses, in specific from “work overload”, “time pressures and deadlines”, “staff shortages and turnover rates” and “long employed hours”. furthermore, female retail managers were more expected than their male counterparts to bear from added stresses initiated by sex discrimination and prejudice. The conclusion of these stressors can assist to organisational deficiency, ultimately damaging the status of the company. Retail companies that effectively undertake the topic of work-related stress will be better equipped to contend with the cost of change within the retail environment. Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION 4
RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS 5
LITERATURE REVIEW 5
WOMEN, WORK AND STRESS 5
METHODOLOGY 7
FINDINGS 9
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SAMPLE 9
WORK STRESSES SKILLED BY MALE AND FEMININE MANAGERS 9
DISCUSSION 10
CONCLUSIONS 13
REFERENCES 15
APPENDIX 22 Introduction
The end of the twentieth years witnessed the development in the number of women going into career-oriented and expert areas and this produced in their advanced participation in administration positions. although, administration places still stay the maintain of males (Wajcman, 1996) and as a outcome most feminine managers are found in smaller grade places with less administration and less pay (Morrison and von Glinow, 1990), often in the service sector (Wilson, 1994). vocation idea is entrenched in

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