October 27, 1999

Study: Women more stressed
___NEW YORK (ABP)--Women feel more stress than men by a 21 percent to 15 percent margin, according to a recent survey.
___The most-stressed women in the world are working mothers with children under 13, according to the Roper Reports Worldwide Global Consumers 2000 study. Non-working mothers of preteens feel slightly less stress. Among females feeling the least stress are teenagers, followed by women who are not mothers.
___"Whether being a working mother of young children is inherently the issue, or whether it is a matter of living up to societal or cultural expectations, the world needs to develop stress-busters to ease the lives of these women," said Tom Miller, director of the global consumer study.
___Researchers interviewed 1,000 women age 13-65 in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Russia, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, China, India, Indonesia, Turkey, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela.
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