Perceived Stress And Quality Of Life Among Working Women During COVID-19

The economic needs of Indian families are increasing day by day. The skyrocketing value of living, growing expenses on education of children, rising value ofhouse properties in India etc demands every family in India to find the ways and meansto increase the income of the family. However, during brought the compulsion ofcomplete lockdown where especially working women with their multiple roles such aswife, mother and daughter-in- law needed to perform all the household activitiesalong with their paid job. Thus current study was planned to assess the perceivedstress and quality of life among working women during COVID-19. Methods: The researchdesign of the study was cross sectional and comparative in nature.Sample comprisedof total 50 (25 Govt. and 25 private) working women in the tricity. Results: Resultsshowed that working women in government had better quality of life and less perceivedstress than compare to private setting however there is no significant difference found.Conclusion: The findings of the study revealed that both the groups perceived higherstress during the Covid-19 pandemic. In quality of life in social relation domain thereis significant difference was found in both settings as in private setting for the jobsecurity private working employees keeps changing their jobs or shift to governmentsetting.