Financial crisis weighs heavily on city's female workers

SHANGHAI: Most female workers in the city suffer from anxiety connected to the global financial crisis, according to a recent survey.

The majority of the 1,173 female respondents from 108 city businesses said they had worried in the past three months because of the crisis. And many said they had more pressure than their male co-workers, said the survey that was jointly conducted by the Shanghai Labor Union and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.

More than 90 percent said the crisis worried them. Some 53 percent felt insecure about their job and 27.9 percent believed they would have difficulty finding another if they were fired or laid off.