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\Wonien handle gtress: well, says researcher ~ Sor women in the workâ€" in A# ing world, and accordâ€" \:(lfi&m-Gueem.l aduate health studies student at the Univerâ€" sity of Waterloo, they‘re toping with ~ changes very well. _ They‘re especially The Council of Outâ€" door Educaters of Onâ€" tario recently anâ€" nounced that Brent Dyâ€" sart of Waterloo has been selected to repreâ€" sent them at the Interâ€" national Environmenâ€" tal Education Forum. The forum will be held in conjunction with the Manâ€"Environâ€" ment Impact Conferâ€" ence in October of this year. It will consist of invited participants â€"the Wateriloo man to represent Ontario outdoor educators at international forum â€" Women who have enâ€" tered maleâ€"dominated professions such as medicine, law, and enâ€" gineering and the execâ€" utive ranks of the busiâ€" are more easyâ€"going and tend to live one day at a time, have lower expectations, don‘t apâ€" pear as highly motivatâ€" ed or job involved . . . as driven. They‘re especially good, she says, at dealâ€" ing with stress, often thought to be characâ€" teristic of highâ€"level professional and execâ€" utive jobs. > According to Garâ€" ceau, people can . be categorized into two types: (1) Type A indiâ€" viduals who are agâ€" gressive, highly motiâ€" vated, timeâ€"pressed, competitive and job inâ€" volved . . . always striving to be tops and never satisfied with their progress and (2) Type B individuals who @ 92 KING ST. S., WA%, N2J 198 . + _T eC _ a JOINT PROJECT of THE COMmuNITY NEWSPARERS OFf ONTARIG ANDCP mr . G: Meset one of the twelve Ontario Junior Citizens of the Year Award winners of 1981 for 1982 Ontario Junior Citizens Rodney Barkley has beenâ€"blind since the age of four. He is a wm_@m.lm&,uwwmmm SQ(II'Chi _Eighty participants from Canada will share ideas, concerns and impressions with eighty invited internaâ€" tional guests. Dysart is the outdoor education consultant for the Waterloo county separate school board and operates the Laurel Creek Field Centre for the board; Dysart, who serves from various countries ground the world. _ are essaÂ¥ deadlines to be met, lab reports to be written and examiâ€" nation worries; the same student might beâ€" have in a Type B manâ€" ner in theâ€" summer, however, when he or she is freed from the pressure of deadlines and possibly: involved fh‘relatively unchalâ€" lenging summer work. person will operate in a Type A manner under one set of cireumâ€" stances and revert to Type B behavior under another. A university student, for instance, may operate in a Type A manner during the school year when there 15, of Williamaeburg, Ontario Research indicates that Type A individuals are more likely to sufâ€" fer from coronary heart disease and are more likely to have heart attacks than increasing numbers Most people,. she of the Year concerns at both the local and national level. as chairman of the Council of Outdoor Edâ€" ucators of Ontario, brings over a decade of experience, education and concern to the enâ€" vironmental issue and _ The council is a proâ€" vincial organization of teachers, students and camp personnel who teach children and adults out of doors. ‘She says ~she ‘was amazed at how many women not only took time to complete ‘ the survey but also added thoughtful commentsa Fome even wrote her letters. haviors. What she has found is that Type A women are hard driving, achieveâ€" pattern); characterisâ€" tics of the work enviâ€" ronment such as reâ€" sponsibility levels, work stress, means of coping with stress, role conflict and health beâ€" The survey attempts to measure Type A behavior (using the Jenkins Activity Surâ€" vey); socialization exâ€" periences (which could lead to development of ages of 20 and 60, askâ€" ing them to complete a.. women ‘between the develops "mee hov it relates to theâ€"occupaâ€" tions women‘ choase. is OMmâ€", u‘s ‘reâ€" ‘sive (or assertive) in on tha -%::uum ar pat~â€" as Type A men are. in many ways but preâ€" liminary evidence sugâ€" gests that Type A women (and women in general) cope better with stress than do Type A men. Women do tend to get migraine headaches in response to stress or get angry, depressed or frustrated, but the maâ€" jority of women use positive methods of coping with stress â€" employed in high status, traditionally maleâ€"dominated jobs. â€" Type A men and They ‘have been men are less apt to do. *‘In general,‘"‘ she says, ‘"women seem to be able to handle stress better. For one thing, they are more apt‘ to discuss‘ their problems with others than men are, men tend to keep things bottled up within talking with others, working out the probâ€" leim with bosses or coâ€" 'orktr.l..d ouulz;l‘:: authority or withdrawâ€" Inggu the situation. says 75 per cent of the woinen surveyed reported they take viâ€" tamins daily to safeâ€" guard their health. Many also exercise daily. Many women say they make a point of getting away from the job and relaxing for a while when they find the stress too much to % & P t "ag , â€"Ahemselves;â€"deny s “.‘: and work even Women in highâ€" status occupations â€" also very stressful â€" tend to have strong social support systems (husbands, parents, This, jincrease: in blodod pressure can eventually lead to coronary heart disease and heart attacks. women will develop coronary heart disease as they grow older," says Garceau. Very few women in Garceau‘s sample had serious health probâ€" lems but she was surâ€" prised to find that a few young women (25 years T ies in me proscly." "It will be interestâ€" sufficient and are more apt to fice stress alone, without the advantage of a social support uetâ€" work. Perhaps men could improve their coping _behaviors by copying women, There is a need for additional research which looks at both sexes and how they cope with stress, Susan Garceau feels. systems to help them cope. with stress. Men ‘on the other hand, have been raised to be more Women are able to call on these ‘support Susan Winship is a staff writer at the Uniâ€" versity of Waterioo. enabled them to aspire to these nonâ€"traditional careers and to feel comfortable wltg their friends) which have N