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As is well known with working women, women professionals also face stress on every day basis. There are pressures and demands of the job and then when they come back home they have to battle with the equally perplexing problems and tensions of their family and home. It´s like they are turned in to 24 7 working regime with no breaks to help them relax. As a result, they are always worried and fretting about some problem at work or something that demands their attention at home. Working women have a dual role to play, when they take up jobs. They have to care of their homes along with their outside employment. This puts strains on them affects their mental and physical well-being. Breaking Up of the joint family system in cities and towns has deprived the woman reliable support in coping with household chores and care for children. This book aims at understanding the extent to which women professionals experience stress, identifying the factors that cause stressful situation, stress manifestation and finally finding out the strategies that women adopt to cope up with stress.

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