The Pressure Of Women For

Pulse

oi-Staff

By Staff

Wednesday, June 10, 2009, 14:06

The modern lifestyle has brought up many good opportunities for women. However there is a depression for any good happenings in life too. It seems most of the women in the present day are suffering from ''.

When it comes to feelings of inadequacy at home and at workplace, ladies suffer more than men. A higher proportion of women feel that they do not meet their own high standards with family and workplace commitments. However such a craving for can have a negative effect on the work-life balance.

Many women have to work at least 20 hours for a week and have family commitments too. Many of them are married and have a child at home too. This always invoke the feeling in the women that "the time I spend with my families interferes with my work responsibilities"; and "when I get home from work I am usually too frazzled to participate in family activities".

There are three categories of women, as those who set themselves very high standards but felt they did not meet them, those who set high personal standards and were happy with their performance, and non-perfectionists. At the workplace many women did not feel they met the high standards they set themselves. When it came to home and family life, many women felt they were failing to meet the standards they wanted to!

The sad outcome of this scenario is that women often felt blameworthy when juggling work and home commitments. In fact women have what we call the double shift - trying to juggle working and competing at work and then carrying out duties at home with men only helping at the margins. They then feel guilty that they're not doing well at work because of home commitments and they're not doing well at home because of work commitments.