From Passion to Pressure: Stress Among Women Entrepreneurs

Management

Women entrepreneurs are those women who think of a business enterprise, initiate it, organize and combine the factors of production, operate the enterprise and undertake risks and handle economic uncertainty involved in running a business enterprise. As an entrepreneur a woman has to face various challenges, obstacles, issues of employees, manage stress by managing a work-life balance, which can affect the psyche of the women entrepreneurs very much and affect the ability to perform. There are different situations which give rise to stress in women entrepreneurs. Stress is tension, strain or pressure from a situation that requires us to use, adapt or develop new coping skills. When stress persists, it can take a toll on the health and well-being. A stressful work environment can contribute to many problems. However, by facing various problems women successfully enlighten their path as an entrepreneur. This study is based on secondary data. The secondary data for the study were collected from books, journals, research articles and websites. The main objective of this paper is to understand stress among women entrepreneurs and stress coping strategy. This paper discusses about causes of stress, impact of stress and coping of stress with reference to women entrepreneurs.

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