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.
concerns 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?
Some 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.Keeping High-Performing Moms In The Workplace
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.
