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Show Stress & The‘Gender HEALTHY LIVING The OTT-LITE Technology” Breakthrough dp A round-up of recent research: ® The problem that women say is most pressing in their everyday lives—attested to in a recent U.S. government survey of 250,000 working women—is stress. @ Stress overload in the workplace is triggered differently in men and women. Most hassles for women revolve around other people, while Ecperience Natural Daylivht, Indoors, men are more stressed out by “technical breakdowns,” such as com- puterglitches and mistakes on the job.(This study, by David Almeida, a developmental family psychologist at the University of Arizona, was part of a national research proj- ect on stress supported by the MacArthur Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.) @ Women have about 30 minutes less free time than men. And mothers have the least free time, according to a University of Pennsyl- vania study. One in four women with children under age 6 spent less than 10 minutes daily on themselves. ®85 percent of working moms feel guilty about combining work and family (compared to 0 percent of working dads). ® Women's stress hormones and blood pressure tend to remain elevated at day's end; men’s usually diminish after work. ® Women experience the most stress between the ages of 35 and 40; the peak stress period for men is between 25 and 30. ® Stress tends to decrease in both women and men after age 60. Generally, the older adults are, the less they allow tension to spoil a mood or cause physical symptoms. For more information, visit The National Women’s Health Resource Center at www.healthywomen.org —a nonprofit Web site dedicated to educating women about health issues. It includes a checklist to help women (and men) find out how stressed they are, a list of stress-re- lated symptoms and other Web sites, organizations and books that can help relieve stress. 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