Authors : Deshmukh A.
Page Nos : 1-5
Description :
In every historic stage of civilization women have constituted half of India‟s population. In spite
of this fact, the position of women has not bee
n the same in all the stages of history. Women in significant
numbers have now entered the portals of formal education both at higher levels and professional levels.
In the realm of work, new frontiers had opened up for women.
When women assume multiple roles there
is bound to be work
–
family conflict because the time and energy is shared, clubbed and extended across
the two spheres of activity. When conflicts between these two domains occur its consequences are
reflected on the
women.
Sports activities are options provided to students in the school and are
conducted outside the ambit of academics; the parents experience stress when their children may not
excel in this area.
This study was carried out to find the level of stress e
xperienced by urban employed
women (300), urban unemployed women (300) with regard to the performance of their children in sports
activities. For this self
-
developed questionnaire was used. The level of stress experienced by the
respondents was divided int
o three parts based on especially designed scale, denoting low stress, medium
stress and high stress. „Z‟ test was applied to check the difference in the level of stress experienced by the
women. The results showed that employed women experienced similar l
evel of stress as that of stress
experienced by unemployed women.
