Stress Level of Working and Non Working Women

Stress is a part of modern life, with increasing complexity of life, stress is likely to increase. Stress is built in the concept of role, which is conceived as the position a person occupies in a system. Women’s in modern global world have to play a dual role as housewife and career builder. The present investigation was conducted to examine the stress among the working and non workingwomen’s. It was hypothesized that the working women’s has more stress than the non- working women’s. In order to verify the above hypothesis a sample of 90 women’s were taken. From which working women’s (N= 45) and non workingwomen’s (N= 45). To measure the stress, the stress scale developed by DR. M. Singh (2002) was administrated individually to the subjects. The data were subjected to ‘t’ analysis and the major findings of the study reveals that the working women’s has more stress than the non workingwomen’s.