A Study on Occupational Health Hazards among IT Sector Women Employees in Tamil Nadu

In view of this healthcare importance, the real economic growth rate depends on the quality of human life especially in improving the women’s standard of living around the world. At present, a large number of women are working in all sectors viz., primary sector, secondary sector and service sector in both the rural and urban areas. Further, they are actively participating in each and every job and express their knowledge and capacity to the society. However, most of the women are dominated by men and are affected psychologically and are under pressure in their work places. The term occupational hazards refer to a risk accepted as a consequence of a particular occupation. Regarding the occupational problems, the women employees in IT sector are facing health hazards like eye fatigue, headache, thyroid problem and others. It could be seen that over a past decade, a large number of women employees in IT sector suffer from heart related diseases. Moreover, the Poor health creates huge strain on physical and mental pressure in working places. At present, the large numbers of women employees also face many social, cultural and economic challenges. Hence, this study is an attempt to identify and analyse the reasons that affects the health of IT sector women employee respondents and give suitable measures to reduce the work related stress in IT sector among women employee respondents. Further, this study focused on primary data and the tools of analyses with using statistical techniques like percentages, t-test and rank value method. As a result found that, the urban area women respondents are highly affected as compared to that of rural area women respondents among the IT sector field. By and large, the study suggested that spiritual meditation is a way to help the reducing stress in psychologically and work related stress reduced through improving communication and technical skill.