A model about uni que stressors among work ing women was explored. Those stressors become salient when a work ing woman conceives an aspiration for business career in the organization. Theref ore i t was named career stressor . Female employees (N = 188) work ing for private corporations were asked to respond the questionnaire consisting of measures on career stressor and general stressor in the organization, career motives, career formation suppor t, and stress reactions. I t was found that

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... ed wi th the high level of career stressor, women wi th high career m otives tend to feel more job dissatisfaction than the low motive group. In addi tion, the results indicated that the support for career failed to buffer the effect of work over -load on measures of strain: the more the work load, the more the strain regardless of the level of social suppor t. Then, i t was suggested that the company needs to work to decrease career stressor and work over-load to allow female workers to move ahead wi th their careers.