Female Bankers Research Articles

Stress Management Techniques in Banking Sectors in Nigeria

Stress is often termed as twentieth century syndrome born out of man’s race toward modern progress and its ensuring complexities. At one point or the other, everybody suffers from stress. Stress has become a part of day-to-day living of every individual. On the one side, stress provides the means to express talents and energies, and pursue happiness; while on the other it can also cause exhaustion and illness, either physical or psychological. This paper has been designed to study the stress management techniques of bank employees in Nigeria banking industry. An attempt has been made to find out the relationship between the female and male coping mechanisms during stress. The researcher makes use of gender and sections in determining his decisions. The descriptive statistical, analysis of variance (ANOVA) and ANOVA statistical technique in testing the relationship among variables. The result shows thatmale and female bank employees will not significantly cope with stress management techniques in Nigerian banking industry. It also shows that male and female bankers were found not to differ significantly on their stress management technique and that stress management is not gender sensitive or gendercentric.The researcher recommends that training, total computerization and others to enable bank employees’ cope-up with the stress in the work places. Also the stress management techniques work best when they are used regularly, not just when the pressure is on knowing how to de-stress and doing it when things are relatively calm can help one get through challenging circumstance that may rise.

How Do Female Bankers React to Competitive Pressures?

How Do Female Bankers React to Competitive Pressures?

How Do Female Bankers React to Competitive Pressures?

How Do Female Bankers React to Competitive Pressures?

Work Pressure and Employment of Housemaids among Female Bank Workers in Ibadan, Nigeria

The employment of housemaids to reduce domestic and official work pressure is prevalent among career women in Nigeria, with implications for child socialization and domestic security. Employing the role strain theory, this study examined the coping strategies adopted by married female bankers as a way of understanding the context of work and family pressure. The data comprised 30 in-depth interviews and six Focus Group Discussions. The results indicate that the employment of housemaid was considered risky but necessary; respondents revealed that recruiting housemaid was a means of reducing pressure from role conflict arising from domestic and official work. The security and socialization of children were reported to be jeopardized as housemaids were inferior substitutes for maternal care and home-keeping. Also common among housemaids were desertion, stealing and sexual liaison with husbands. Among other recommendations, banks should device measures to enable married female staff to take adequate care of their children in close proximity to the workplace.

Contraception among bankers in an urban community ln Lagos state, Nigeria

IntroductionContraception means procedures employed to interfere at one stage or the other with the normal sequence of events in the process of reproduction leading to a failure in conception. It means voluntary techniques adopted to achieve birth control. Its use remains sensitive worldwide. Within the same society, contraception varies amongst people of different socio-cultural, educational, religious, or occupational affiliations. It also varies between urban and rural settlements. Some contraceptive techniques also prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The prevalence of STIs also varies with these same factors. There is very limited literature on contraception exclusively amongst bankers. We sought to investigate the level of awareness and practice of contraception amongst bankers in an urban society in Lagos State, Nigeria.MethodsIn this descriptive cross-sectional study, 200 self-administered structured questionnaires were retrieved from bankers from 5 banks selected by simple random sampling in Surulere Local Government Area of Lagos State, Nigeria. Data was subsequently statistically analyzed using SPSS.ResultsThe age range was 21-45 years, mean28.8±1.4 years, 51.7% were males (72% single, 27% married, 1% separated) and 48.3% were females (52.4% single, 47.6% married). All (100%) respondents were aware of contraception, 93.3% males and 91.7% females were sexually active, 88.9% males and 84.5% females believe contraception is useful. Most (71.4%) respondents practice contraception, males (81%) being more than females (61.1%), p < 0.05. More (71.4%) females and fewer (37.8%) males believe that contraception prevents pregnancy but not STIs, 28.6% of females and 46.6% of males believe it prevents both pregnancy and STIs, whereas 14% of males and no female believe contraception prevents STIs but not pregnancy.ConclusionThe awareness of and practice of contraception was very high among the bankers but more male bankers practice contraception whereas more female bankers perceive contraceptives to be for the married only.