NEW YORK: Malaysian women rank 16th most stressed women in the world, according to a recent study on the stress levels which women worldwide are subjected to.

Indian women rank as the world's most stressed women and that they live and work under considerable time pressure. 

Study shows that, Indian women are most stressed (87%), followed by Mexican (74%) and Russian women (69%). In the developed countries, the stress level is the highest for women in Spain (66%), France (65%) and Italy (64%).

Malaysian women (44%) rank 16th in the list while women in Thailand (45%) share the 15th spot with South Korea (45%). Japanese women (52%) rank 12th as mainland Chinese women (51%) rank 13th.

According to India's "Economic Times", the greater stress levels of women in the newly industrialized countries can be credited to the fact that in recent years, for example, in India, the corporate sector and the jobs have developed at an extremely fast pace while the society has stagnated with its traditional role of patterns.