Women and Workplace Stress

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"Although males, between the ages of 20 to 30, with five or more years of work experience in presupervisory or premanagerial jobs, make up the group comprising the largest numbers affected by occupational stress due to their majority position in the overall work force, another group that is disproportionately and more adversely affected is women. Occupational stressors are also compounded when the women are members of an ethnic or racial minority (Pelletier 47).
In 1992, the Northwestern National Life Insurance Company in Minneapolis polled 1,299 full-time employees at a random sample of U.S. companies and found women experienced much more job stress than men. Women were more likely than men to suffer from a serious stress-related illness (41 percent versus 26 percent). Job burnout was reported by 36 percent of the women, compared..."

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