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Interview Patty

Women, Stress and The Workplace

Struggle with the weight of balancing work and family

Women are making greater strides than ever before, both at work and at home.

Not only are we making our way into leadership ranks across all industries, but we’re also bringing home the funds to support our families.

But these advancements come with a price. As women workers struggle with the weight of balancing work and family, we’re stressed out.

While stress affects both genders, our recent Randstad Engagement Study found that it has a greater impact on women workers, with 27 percent of women (compared to 22% of men) citing stress as a top reason to leave their current job. Read more about our Randstad Engagement Study findings on stress in the workplace!

Our findings coincide with a recent survey from the American Psychological Association, which found that one-third of employees experience chronic stress related to work – and women reported higher levels of work stress than men.

“We Do, Do, Do, and Overdo”

Rebecca Rosen, senior editor at The Atlantic, recently dove into the topic of women and stress and the struggle to achieve work-life balance. Guilt, Rosen noted, was an underlying reason why we push ourselves so hard to excel both at work and home:

“We’re working more hours—more extreme hours … Our standards for what it takes to be a good parent, particularly a good mother, are insanely high and out of proportion to all reality. We all feel like we’re not doing enough for our children, so in our guilt, we do, do, do, and overdo: more lessons, more teams, more sports, bigger birthday parties, more educational outings. And we all feed off each other—particularly as we look to the future, see a changing global economy and so much uncertainty about what “success” will look like.”

Stress Take Its Toll

The heavy weight of stress is taking a physical toll, the Wall Street Journal notes, and it can negatively impact all the things that help productivity, including mental clarity, short-term memory, decision-making and moods. What’s more, the article added, women tend to internalize, which contributes to their stress because they hesitate to speak up for themselves or challenge behaviors they see as unfair.”

Read the full article at:  womenpoweringbusiness.com

Patty Block, President and Founder of The Block Group, established her company to advocate for women-owned businesses, helping them position their companies for strategic growth. Charting the course for impactful, sustainable, profitable businesses, the beacon is control: of your strategic direction, your money, your time, your staffing, and your ability to bring in business. The Block Group brings together the people, resources and ideas that build results.

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