A report has revealed that South Africa’s working women are more at risk of toxic work stress.
A report has revealed that working women in South Africa are more at risk of toxic work stress.In addition to recent figures by Statistics South Africa noting how women in Mzansi continue to shoulder the burden of unemployment, underemployment and lower workforce; a report has revealed that South Africa’s working women are more at risk of toxic work stress.
“Stress-related symptoms can contribute to absenteeism, staff turnover, late-coming and declining quality of work, and may lead to negative peer relationships, disengagement or presenteeism.”The economic impact is significant – one study found that the productivity losses of absenteeism due to depression equated to 0.62% of SA’s GDP, with depression-linked presenteeism costing the economy 4.23% of GDP.
Chronic stress can cause or worsen mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety and mood disorders, and/or culminate in burnout.The prevalence of burnout and its root cause in chronic workplace stress has led to the World Health Organisation classifying it as an exclusively occupational phenomenon.’s burnout levels have gradually reduced since the pandemic, half of the respondents in the 2024 Deloitte Women@Work survey reported that their stress levels had increased over the past year.
Schoeman highlighted a number of reasons for women’s greater risk of workplace stress becoming chronic, toxic stress.Women are more likely to be employed in lower-paying jobs or self-employed and they have less job security, forming the majority of shift and contract workers and often juggling multiple jobs along with bearing most of the load of household responsibilities.
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