Author(s): Aakanksha Pandey, Sanghamitra Mohapatra and Aarti Singh

Abstract:
Stress is considered as the harmful physical and emotional response that occurs when there is a poor match between job demands and capabilities, resources and needs of the employees. Stress is stated as the independent variable while job satisfaction as independent variable. Public (government) and private sector (Educational institution, Hospitals, Banks, shopping complex) is located in Allahabad district were investigated and it was carried out on a sample of 120 women employees. Simple random sampling was applied to select a representative sample. A pre structured questionnaire was used to collect data, t-test were used to test the research hypothesis. Researcher found that private sector women employees have high level of stress in comparison of public (government) sector women employees but they were more satisfied with their working environment and condition in comparison of public sector women employees. Study confirmed that stress is significantly correlated with job satisfaction. It can be concluded that too much of job stress leads to have low level of job satisfaction and low level of stress leads to have high level of job satisfaction.