Work Life Balance Among Married Working Women
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Abstract
Work-life balance is a broad concept including proper prioritizing between “work” (career and ambition) on one hand and “life” (Health, pleasure, leisure, family and spiritual development) on the other. Work/life imbalance is when the pressures from one role make it difficult to comply with the demands of the other. (Greenhaus & Beutell, 1985).
Dual career family has become the need of an hour, demographic profiles are changing, nowadays, people are moving from their home town to the place where they are getting work and obviously because of which they have less working hands to take care of children and family. And this is the reason why married working women facing a lot of problems. Especially in developing countries like India where work culture is not so organized, many times women are unable to set their boundaries between personal responsibilities and professional duties.
Work life balance is highly desirable for women employees in current circumstances as without job satisfaction and consistency in life, it creates a dilemma for working women. Since, work-life conflict downwards female employees' career progress as well as the productivity of the organization.