• Deepti Kothari
• Rita Goel

The workplaces in the present era are characterized by employees having high expectations and tough competition amongst them to fulfill the performance standards. The growing quest for excellence amongst the working class is leading to performance pressure on the individuals. Women belonging to either the workforce or the labour force are one of the most vulnerable sections in this context. A working woman besides fulfilling the traditionally earmarked productive, reproductive and community management roles, is also burdened with maintain standard of work at the workplace. As a result, not only the family but the women herself faces various physical and psychological problems. The present study makes an attempt to explore problems faced by working women and their children as a result of women’s dual role. The respondents for the study were 120 working women respondents, 60 from each public and private sector and 15 each from Class I, II, III and IV cadre working in banks, hospitals and educational institutions of Hisar city of Haryana State. Results of the study concluded that majority of the respondents’ children suffered from obesity (69.47%), swing mood (65.00%) and lack of attachment (62.11%) in terms of physical, psychological and socio-emotional problems respectively. Regarding perceived impact on physical health prevalence of physical ailments like vision disability in extreme, bodyache in moderate and low prevalence of headache was reported. In terms of psychological health issues, anxiety, conflict with family members, loss of sound sleep, and monotony were moderate and low episodes of memory loss, conflict with colleagues’ and lack of zeal were also stated by the respondents. Other problems reported by the respondents were lack of time for personal care and household work, unable to look after children/family members and other household responsibilities.

Competition, Expectations, Health problems, Working Women, Stress

"PROBLEMS FACED BY THE WORKING WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN DUE TO JOB", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no.195-203, March-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903H70.pdf

"PROBLEMS FACED BY THE WORKING WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN DUE TO JOB", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no. pp195-203, March-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903H70.pdf