https://www.ojs.jdss.org.pk/journal <h1><a href="https://jdss.org.pk/">Journal of Development and Social Sciences (JDSS)</a></h1> <p><strong>Orients Social Research Consultancy (OSRC) Securities Exchange Commission of Pakistan (N0.ARL/INC4757)</strong> is an educational set up to manage the educational and research activities with modern scientific devices for the welfare and to educate the nation with these objectives</p> <ul> <li>To improve the quality of education and research activities</li> <li>To provide the chance to avail modern method of teaching and learning to students, teachers and researchers.</li> <li>To held conferences, lectures, discussions to raise research activities</li> </ul> <p>Journal of Development and Social Sciences (JDSS) publishes original and quality research in all disciplines of social sciences. is a <strong>Triple-blind peer-reviewed</strong> <strong>open access</strong> multidisciplinary research journal that publishes. This academic research journal addresses both applied and theoretical issues in social sciences in English language. Likely subscribers are universities, research institutions, governmental, non-governmental agencies and individual researchers.</p> Orients Social Research Consultancy (OSRC) en-US Journal of Development and Social Sciences 2709-6254 <p><img src="https://jdss.org.pk/img/open-access.png" alt="Open Access" /></p> <p><strong>ORIENTS SOCIAL RESEARCH CONSULTANCY (OSRC) &amp; Journal of Development and Social Sciences (JDSS)</strong> adheres to <strong>Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International License</strong>. The authors submitting and publishing in <strong>JDSS</strong> agree to the copyright policy under <strong>creative common license 4.0 (Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International license)</strong>. Under this license, the authors published in <strong>JDSS</strong> retain the copyright including publishing rights of their scholarly work and agree to let others remix, tweak, and build upon their work non-commercially. All other authors using the content of <strong>JDSS</strong> are required to cite author(s) and publisher in their work. Therefore, <strong>ORIENTS SOCIAL RESEARCH CONSULTANCY (OSRC) &amp; Journal of Development and Social Sciences (JDSS)</strong> follow an <strong>Open Access</strong> Policy for copyright and licensing.</p> <p><img src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc/4.0/88x31.png" alt="Creative Commons License" /> </p> <p><a href="https://sfdora.org/"><img src="https://jdss.org.pk/img/signatory-of-dora.png" alt="Signatory of DORA" /></a></p> https://www.ojs.jdss.org.pk/journal/article/view/1631 <p>This qualitative research investigates the stress in the workplace, emotional expression, and work-family conflict among sanitary workers in terms of a gendered and structural context. The study is based on the Stress Process Model, Gender Role Theory, and Work-Family Conflict Theory and focuses on the overlap of occupational demands and family-related demands and coping strategies. The data were collected through in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 9 sanitary workers who were working in the urban municipal area of Sargodha. Thematic analysis showed that physically demanding work, job insecurity, low pay, and social stigma are factors that contribute to stress. The Gender norms had a great impact on emotional expression, where men were likely to conceal distress and women to express more emotional and domestic pressures. The tension between work and family increased the psychological pressure, especially to women. In spite of these difficulties, resilience was displayed by participants through peer support, religious faith, and adaptive coping. The paper indicates that gender-sensitive policy and structural reforms are needed to solve occupational health disparities.</p> Mahnaz Kausar Zahid Ali Naqi Zahra Zulfiqar Copyright (c) 2026 Journal of Development and Social Sciences https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 2026-03-01 2026-03-01 7 2 01 12 10.47205/jdss.2026(7-II)01