Female managers more often with burnout – Yahoo! News

This post is not so good for the emancipation: women managers are more susceptible to burnout than male. In 2015 had 14 percent of female executives symptoms shown by the National Working Conditions Survey (NEA). In men went “only” around 10 percent.

There are few other professions, there is such a big difference between men and women, according to the research conducted by CBS and TNO.

In the survey, 29 percent of female managers themselves several times a month empty feeling at the end of their workday. It also said 17 percent feel emotionally drained regularly if they thought their work. In men, these percentages were 4 to 5 points lower.

Higher pressure for women

Female managers also experienced a higher workload and have to work extra hard and often very quickly. The pressure is particularly high in education and health care and welfare, where relatively many female managers work. That’s not so strange, because when workers eg too many tasks to get their plate, getting conflicting assignments or assigned to work or not is them, which leads quickly to overstrain.

In addition, women are less likely than men determine their leave and working hours. This has to do with the industry. Female managers are overrepresented in the hospitality and education and those sectors is the autonomy relatively low

Workers are worse off

However, there is not just bad news. Managers have less burn-outklachten than average. Of all workers said 13 percent is burned to feel among managers this was two percentage points lower.

In most professions, the difference between men and women is relatively large. For example, 15 percent of men in the ICT burnout, against 17.6 percent of women. In dienstlenende professions feels 13.1 percent of men are exhausted, versus 10.8 percent of women.

Top three sectors most burn outklachten workers

There is one sector where the discrepancy is larger: 11 percent of men who work in public administration, security and legal profession feels burned outklachten. 15.1 per cent of women will suffer from.

The biggest risk of burn-out walk if you have a teaching profession (average 18.6 percent) in the creative and linguistic industry (17.8 percent) and works in the ICT (average 15.3 percent).