Women feel the heat as 33% are sole breadwinners

THE increasing pressure on women to juggle family and work is highlighted in a new study which shows that more than a third of working women are the sole breadwinners in their household.

The 2011 Pfizer Health Index, published yesterday, also shows the stress people are under as a result of workplace and financial concerns, particularly among parents, with more than one-in-five affected.

Across both genders, the numbers claiming to have lost a job has trebled in the past two years, up from 7% to one-in-five. Almost half (49%) now live in a home with ‘a fundamental recession impact’, a rise of 233,000 year-on-year.