Resilience: Stress bouncer in working Indian women

Abstract

A woman of today has immense potential and adequate skills set to be in par with their male counterparts. Indian women today represented in workforce in bigger numbers than ever before. Wherein these roles demand a lot of time of women executives due to which work life balance becomes a challenging task. However, one who is able to balance work life is a winner. Despite their work position they hold, say, be it women managers, officers and clerical groups in their carrier they face common problems like work for extra hours to gain recognition, burden of dual role, refusal of men to accept women as seniors, sexual harassment in work place, continuous technology up-gradation and lack of solidarity among women which contributes to increasing stress among women employees in work place. We live in the age of adversity and to be successful in life one needs both capability and coping ability. This paper consist of literature review done in Indian context as well as Indian women living in foreign countries showing evidences that when they were more resilient they inculcate better coping abilities, which in turn reduce work stresses and dealing with work related issues more effectively.