Mental Health

The Importance Of Paying Attention To Professional Women’s Mental Health

More realistic understanding of the mental health of working people, the China Human Resources Portal United Nations a number of well-known media to start the 2005 mental health staff survey, the survey found, mental health, working people are not optimistic.

With the continuous development of society, women have gradually by the family into the workplace, the professional women owners. Type of professional women in the dual role of the family and the workplace, in the face from the family, the dual pressures of work, you need our professional women have a good psychological quality, but also need the community’s concern about the psychological health of professional women. Therefore, I would like this professional women’s mental health topics to talk about their own views, in order to communicate with each other and jointly promote.

Office Ladyconcerns the importance of professional women’s mental health

1:concerned about the professional women’s mental health is a guarantee for the development of women’s health

The human body is the full life of the psychological and physiological reunification of the two functions. The body through the unity of mental and physical activities with the outside world of natural and social environment, material, energy and the exchange of information and adapt to environmental changes, to keep the body healthy. Mental health and physical health are to each other, interact, equally important, the body of a particular aspect of the function of the (mental or physical) changes, can cause the (physiological or psychological) functions change. World Health Organization defined health as “not only no physical defects and disease, but also have a complete physical, psychological state and social adaptability. Visible, mental health is an integral part of the complete concept of health, it has been recognized. Such as new career today the psychiatrist, counseling, psychological testing, mental illness, a new term; some employing units in terms of employment clearly required candidates to physical health, mental health. These new occupations, new term, new requirements are generated due to the trend of the times, which is also constantly concerned about the mental health focus performance.

2:Concerned about the professional women’s mental health is the first of the family live in harmony

Professional women’s leadership position in general is low, the influence of traditional ideas in this subject to people at the service of the work of professional women’s true feelings are not free to release, personalized lack of publicity. In this process, if not the attitude adjustment, emotional stability, not the pressure at work, disappointments, depression, irritability, paranoia and other adverse psychological factors of unhealthy brought home, once the home of “Mars” is bound to lead to volcanic eruptions. “”Volcanic eruption”, and occasionally the “crater” towards her husband, the husband may will could fool, so let (Remember that scene seen enough, this situation is not necessarily too long, but be careful soon disband ). Toward the wrong direction, facing another female, it may lead to the Battle of the mother-and daughter, together with her ​​husband to do the “sandwich meal. In this case, the home can be said to populations everywhere, utter confusion! Hoped that would not mention the family can live in harmony, mutual respect and mutual love, care for the young. It was “love always simple to get along too difficult,” ah!

3:concerned about the professional women’s mental health is a sign of social harmony and progress

Social harmony is reflected in the humanistic ideas, and people-oriented, gender harmony, the harmony of the family is an important indicator of social harmony. Social harmony, from the care of women; people-oriented, from the care of women. As the saying goes: a woman is half of the sky. In order to hold up half the sky, we need physical and mental health of women, we need to focus on professional women’s mental health.

Career Women Makes Bad Mothers And Wives, Really?

office ladySome time ago I wrote an article called Housewife vs Career Women Can We Have it All?. This article have brought a lot of traffic to my blog, which I was surprised about, because I didn’t thought there were so manywomen asking themselves what is better if being housewife or a Career Woman. As I explain in my previous article some of us dreamed of having a career and being successful professionally talking. Some people portrait career woman as this bitchy ladies that they would castrate guys if they would have the opportunity; or they are also portrait as dominant women that treats the husbands like doormats and neglect children. While there are women like that that has more to do with the core of the person that if the woman is professionally active or not. I have seen very good mothers that have careers and horrifying mothers that are housewife.
I also think that we must understand that some people have the necessity to do things outside of the household, some people have necessity of intellectual challenges. In the last decades the societies of different countries have focus in educate girls with equality ideas, telling them they can achieve everything guysdoes, and it is true, but what about the boys?. Boys also should be educated, they must understand they are not above the domestic work or the children care. If both persons share 50% of the house work, there is no necessity of overwork women.
I agree with some women that said that in the last couple of decades women have the double of the work load, but what about guys?, they keep having the same amount of work than before, sometimes they even have less, because in the first half of the XX century they have all responsibility of bring money to their home, if they didn’t do it, the wife and kids will starve. Now they don’t have that much pressure because if they loose the job, they still can back with the wife’s salary if she works. In essence we have take workload out of the guys shoulders and put it over ours. That is why is imperative to share tasks with our partners and also look for the support of the family.
It always amazes me seeing how many guys still can’t even do their own laundry, and this is totally wrong. Mothers teach girls how to clean and how to cook, but they don’t do the same with the boys, so as a consequence boys think they are above all of those chores.
Career Women don’t automatically makes bad mother or wife, I am always amazed when I go to my fiance’s parents apartment, very often I found his father cleaning the floor, and whenever his mother have to do the laundry he always helps her. So they both have the same workload at the house. I think the key is that we have to stop believing that the children responsibility are only a woman’s work and father is only the ATM of the house. Also we are underestimating the benefits of the daycare centers, in daycare centers (the good ones), children learn how to socialize with other children. When I was a child my mother had the possibility to stay at home with me because my health was very fragile when I was a child, but the pediatrician that was treating me told her that I should go to daycare because that would make me a more independent kid. Under any circumstance I am saying that it is good leaving our children on daycare until 6pm or 7pm because we are working. I don’t condone the women that don’t take care of the children for being working long hours, or women that treats the husbands horribly and neglet children. I believe a good balance can be achieved only if we choose as a partner a man that is willing to share the house and children responsibilities 50%, a man that doesn’t care if he has to make some homework with the children, a man that cooks if he has too, a man that is willing to take the children to the park or to museums, in generally a man that is willing to devote himself to his wife and his children just like a wife should do, and when I mean devote himself I am not talking about bringing good money to the house, it is have dedication to his family. Career Women don’t make bad mother’s, but they do need a support network including the husband and family. Some Career Women think that they must be perfect and they should be superwomen, well there is no such a thing as a superwomen, it is OK to be vulnerable and it is OK to ask for help, but your partner also should be there for you all the time.

Keeping High-Performing Moms In The Workplace

Career Women  In a recent Fortune article on how to keep high-performing women in the workplace when they want to start a family, author Georgia Collins provides some excellent tips on what companies can do to retain their star female employees.

Collins stresses the following tips for those who manage working moms:

  • Allow flexibility (for everyone)
  • Don’t manage and measure performance based on “face time” at work. “Manage (and measure) performance by results”
  • Provide challenges and new roles to keep these women engaged. Remember, people who feel challenged are happier in their jobs
  • Provide positive reinforcement. Letting people know when their contributions make a difference helps keep them motivated
  • Recognize that most families now include two working parents and embrace “policies that support families, rather than just working moms” and thus benefit everyone

I have always been a big proponent of measuring and managing employee performance based on results, not on the number of hours they spend at work, so I was pleasantly surprised to see this on Ms. Collins’ list of tips. This process of basing performance on results instead of face time at work is not a new concept. However, until we all work together to change how companies and managers measure performance to put the emphasis on results, working mothers will continue to be challenged in the amount of face time versus other employees.

I also support Ms. Collins’ request for companies to embrace “policies that support families, rather than just working moms.” Supportive and loving families now come in many different forms. Isn’t it about time for companies to move toward policies that accommodate working fathers and partners?

What are your thoughts? What have you or your company done to retain high-performing working moms? Share your ideas in the “Comments” section below.