Abstract
Women are playing challenging roles and even more competent than men in the modern world. Stress is relevant to all jobs whereas in policing it is much more than others. Women working in police race problematic situations in balancing both work and family. Despite this prevailing situation; women are willing to join police. This is mainly because of receiving social security and social status. This study examines the stress among the women police working in Pudukkottai District, Tamil Nadu, which also covers the workplace stress, personal stress and overall stress. It also reveals about various remedial measures implemented and needed to be altered. In this descriptive study, the sample of 156 women police were selected by adopting convenient sampling and responses were
collected using questionnaire method.