ROLE CONFLICT AND WORK STRESS: IMPACT ON WOMEN’S HEALTH The realm of health takes fundamental concern in women’s life, which alter and may be altered by social themes. The domain of health embodies the entire range of issues related to illness, sickness, well-being, preventing, diagnosing, healing, caring, and curing. The health status of women in a society is the index standard, determining social progress. Working women experience greater ‘inter–role’ overload and conflict than either men or non-working women. Much of the household and productive tasks performed by women in India remain unaccounted for due to socio-biological factors. Women do a lot of ‘unpaid’ ‘free’ work at home as per ‘normal’, ‘natural’, and ‘traditional’ social expectations. There is convincing evidence that working women suffer from regular headaches and depression due to the stress of balancing multiple roles. Many potential women of high caliber suppress themselves from career advancement for the sake of a peaceful, stressless family life, considering service to the husband as the fundamental obligation of a woman’s life. Women’s responsibility as ‘providers’ or ‘care giver’ is central at home. While discharging their duties at home as per the expectations of others, woman mostly forgets to take care of themselves. The job ‘outside’, determines her ‘public life and the job ‘inside’ determines her ‘private’ life, working women encounter the ‘dual role dilemma’ This paper opens a window towards women’s ‘ill health’ due to the ‘intrinsic’ and ‘extrinsic’ ‘multiple-role’ conflict