Comparative Study of Occupational Stress of Working Women of Different Job Strata

Occupational stress refers to a stress an employee experience due to responsibilities, conditions, environment, or pressures at the work place. There are several types of occupational stress, depending upon employees, type of job or environment. Thus, in the present investigation an attempt is made to study occupational stress of working women of different job strata. For this 300 working women (50 from higher job strata, 150 middle and 100 from lower job strata) from government organizations were undertaken. Sample was collected by purposive sampling techniques fromtricity, i.e., Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula. Exclusion criteria for the sample is thatdivorcees, widows or women living apart from the husband , having contract or temporary job were not included in the study. Data was collected by using occupational stress index, constructed by Srivastava and Singh (1984). Critical analysis of the data revels that working women of lower job strata were higher on occupational stress as compared to middle and higher job strata.