Stresses associated with career success for women.
In recent years, more women have pursued careers in business and the traditionally male professions. Those that have succeeded live with a high degree of environmental stress. Since some of them are now consulting psychiatrists it is important that the psychiatrist be able to differentiate difficulties which have a cultural basis from those stemming from individual psychodynamics. Cultural stresses have been reviewed under three headings: inaccurate stereotypes; inadequate cultural supports; and role overload. It has been suggested that contact with her peer group is extremely important for this type of woman patient. The peer group provides both support and a frame of reference within which individual problems may be understood.
D000124:Achievement; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D002322:Career Mobility; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012380:Role; D013315:Stress, Psychological