Stress and Women - Reduce Stress and Symptoms of Burnout

Today, employees are expected to do more work with less time, which has become a main cause of stress at work. Other causes of stress on the job include worries about performing well, as time diminishes and demands rises, disagreements with the boss or argue with co-workers, and pressure to continuously be plugged in. In fact, in some cases, unemployed people seem to far better when compared to the employed one, as some jobs can affect the mental health badly.

Do Women React to Stress in a Different Way Than Men?

A recent survey revealed that women were more likely to suffer physical symptoms of stress than men. Even though there is no enough proof to confirm that it applies to all women, stress is a common factor among women. They regularly deal with stress in many ways than men. Most of the men survive by ‘escaping’ into an entertainment or other relaxing activities. While they are more likely to have the ‘fight or flight’ response, women have ‘tended and befriend’ qualities and get support from their friends and families.

Most of the Women’s Story:

Most of the women do two full-time jobs at the same time. Yes, as a perfect mom for their kids and as a responsible employee in their profession. They try to expose themselves as a happy person and a hard worker. But still, chaos might happen often in their life. They may find hard spending enough time with their kids, which makes stressing them out. Getting up early in the morning, making kids to get ready for the school, doing other regular activities, including cooking, running to office in heavy traffic, doing overtime to finish the deadlines, etc. When they were so tired and think they didn’t want to do anything, they find the day is not yet over. Again, they have to run for preparing dinner, doing laundry, and the kids need mom’s attention in between.    

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