Stress among women as entrepreneurs and home maker in Kancheepuram district, Tamilnadu, India

In a developing country like India, the presence of women entrepreneurs is of vital necessity. As women, they have to play a dual role balancing the society and home. Women entrepreneurs face many problems to run a successful enterprise. The problems faced by them depend on the nature of the business managed by them. The modern women have to visualize a new horizon and identify the direction to make tough decisions. It is something to be note worthy in mentioning that our society started accepting the changing role of a woman in India. Women are playing many roles as professionals, bread-earners in families and as independent thinking individuals like entrepreneur. More often than not, a homemaker is a person who undertakes and cares of her own family and children and emotionally attached to her family. On the other hand, Entrepreneurs are being known that the women who is engaged fully outside home. Thus, the growth in the number of working wife families are increased and widely agreed to be one of the most important social trend. The satisfaction and the stress level of each individual will vary according to their place, position, family background, financial position, work place and other related factors. A join up study was conducted to examine the satisfaction and stress level of both Entrepreneurs and a homemaker. A sample of 100 women was taken for this research purpose. The main intention of this paper is to impart the level of stress and satisfaction of both the groups. Thus it is identified that the group of women are satisfied with the work at hand but they are stressed in some factors like lack of recognition from the society in case of home maker, in contrast the Entrepreneurs suffer from business environment and job pressure. As both the groups of women are not giving much importance to their health condition, it is advisable for them to do some burn-outs to reduce their stress level and make their life cheerful and flourishing