The Struggle to Balance Work and Family Life During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights Based on the Situations of Working Women in Delhi

2022 ◽  
pp. 0192513X2110588
Author(s):  
Deeksha Tayal ◽  
Aasha Kapur Mehta
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Physical Interaction ◽  
Familial Support ◽  
The World ◽  
Work Burden

The COVID-19 pandemic generated economic contraction across the world. In India, the stringent lockdown led to extreme distress. The unprecedented situation adversely affected the women’s efforts to balance professional life with family life because of a disproportionate increase in their domestic work burden and a shift in their workstation to home. Since every job cannot be performed remotely, women employed in healthcare services, banks and media witnessed additional risks of commuting and physical interaction at the workplace. Based on personal interviews of women in the Delhi-NCR region, the study aims to explore the commonalities and variances in the challenges experienced by the women engaged in diverse occupations. Using the qualitative methodology of flexible coding, the study finds that a relatively larger section of women travelling to their office during the pandemic, rather than those working from home, had an effective familial support system that helped them navigate this tough time.

scholarly journals Conciliación de la Vida Laboral y Familiar en Mujeres en Formación Ocupacional

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marí­a Montserrat Blanco Garcí­a ◽  
Pablo Sánchez Antolí­n ◽  
Francisco Javier Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Career Advancement ◽  
Work Organization ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Sexual Division Of Labor ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
Collective Imagination

Objectives: To analyze the imagery of women on reconciling work and family life to explore the beliefs, opinions and related experiences of gender inequality. Methods: We applied a qualitative methodology of in-depth, semi-structured individual and group women in vocational training courses. We have also conducted interviews with experts on gender equality. Results: Women and experts interviewed manifest the presence of barriers to reconciling work and family both in the organizations, career advancement, and applicable legislation. Conclusions: There is an undercurrent in the collective imagination and individual beliefs of society that allows the maintenance of the values associated with the patriarchal organization, sexual division of labor and socializing unequal gender roles. It is required a transformation of work organization to improve the lives of people.

Introduction: Or, Why Fat is a Paranoid Issue

Paranoia ◽  
2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Freeman ◽  
Jason Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Computer Games ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Ready Meal ◽  
The Uk ◽  
At Will

Over the past few years, a new and deadly epidemic has stalked the land. Britain and the US, just like much of the rest of the world, are getting fat. Around 60 per cent of adults in the UK are heavier than they should be. It’s a similar story in the US, where two-thirds of adults are overweight or extremely overweight (obese). That’s a pretty shocking statistic, but we all know that keeping in shape when you’re trying to balance the demands of work and family life is tough. Who’s got time to get to the gym? Who has the energy to do more than heat up a ready meal after ten hours in the office? Besides, we all get bigger as we get older, don’t we? It’s a metabolism thing—isn’t it? But if you think the statistics for adults are alarming, wait till you find out how our kids are faring. In 2003, 27 per cent of children under 11 in England were either overweight or obese. In the US, where different methods to measure obesity are used, nearly 20 per cent of children aged 6 to 11 were classified as overweight or obese in 2004. The numbers have almost doubled in a decade. How did so many children get to be overweight before they’ve even reached the ripe old age of 11? How do you become overweight when so much of your day is taken up with charging round a playground or park, when you can’t drive, and when you’re not free—like the rest of us—to stuff your face at will with chocolate, crisps, and alcohol? The answer, of course, is a complex one. If adults are eating much less healthily than they used to, so are their kids. Instead of spending their evenings playing outside, children now have the delights of multi-channel television, computer games, and the Internet to choose from. And then there’s the fact that increasing numbers of us just won’t let our children outside on their own. Back in the mid 1970s, we were 6 years old.

scholarly journals WOMEN RIGHTS IN SOUTH ASIA: CASE OF PAKISTAN

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasmin Syed,Safia Habib,Farah Naseer
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Work Load ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
The Status

This research study is lead to explore the challenges faced by working women in balancing work and family life at universities of Quetta city of Pakistan. Usually Men are assuming to perform strength require activities which are not purely distributed to male in underdeveloped countries. In reality female are more engaged in these activities rather than male. Women play the list of roles as a mother, sister, wife, daughter, as a working women in our lives that are beyond compare. Pakistan is male dominated society it is a fact that the status of women has changed than past but still she faced problems and challenges especially as working women. Working women with high work load and lack of leaves are unable to attend their family functions as well as unable to give proper attention to their family members. The research study was quantitative in nature. The researcher select 115 university teachers for study their work life balance through simple random sampling The data was collected through questionnaire technique. The collected data were coded and edited and were analyzed through using SPSS. Chi-square test was applied to analyze the factors like time and household management. Teaching is one of the elegant professions. Lecturers or professors with work stress and depression cannot produce best students .specially it become a challenge for married women to maintain balance between work and family life. Therefore the need was felt to investigate the factors like time management that create hurdles in balancing both private and work life. This study is equally important for academics, researchers and organizations. The findings indicates that those women with initial years of their marital life find more difficulties in managing between their dual lives because at that stage they have the responsibility of small kids with domestic core management as well as they required extra potential and abilities to cope with office demands which creates role conflict for them. The study found that little relaxation in office timing, availability of day care centers and opportunity of job sharing makes the life of working women more relaxed.

scholarly journals THE EXPERIENCE OF WORK-LIFE BALANCE FACED BY MOTHERS WITH PRESCHOOL CHILDREN

2020 ◽  
pp. 81-93
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Preschool Children ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Quality Care ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Family Responsibilities ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Unequal Distribution

The article presents the results of the sociological study “Parents between the need to work and family responsibilities” (in baze on 1047 questionnaires with mothers with preschool children and 20 in-depth sociological interviews), conducted by the Center for Demographic Research of NIER. The purpose of the study consisted in analyzing the particularities of reconciling the family life and the professional life of mothers with preschool children, in highlighting the difficulties they face in reintegrating into the labour market after child care leave and in determining the factors that contributes to facilitating the process of balancing family and professional life. The results of the study revealed that families face difficulties in establishing and maintaining a balance between many and sometimes contradictory demands of family and professional life. The interviewed mothers highlighted a high level of motivation to be employed, but the defining reason for returning to the labor market is the need to earn money. Depending on the professional and family orientations, mothers with preschool children can be divided into three categories: mothers who want to combine the work with raising children (65%), mothers who intend to make a career but do not forget about children (21.3%) and mothers who prefer to be housewifes and take care of children (13.7%). Although the support of the husband moderates the relationship between family and professional responsibilities, the results of the study have shown that there is a tendency for women to take full responsibility of the household and child care. The lack of quality care and education services for preschool children, the absence of flexible work programs but also the unequal distribution of family responsibilities contribute to making the work-family life balance a predominant problem.

A Qualitative Research on the Work-Family-Life Balance Perception of Working Fathers

2022 ◽  
pp. 206-228
Author(s):  
Selin Umutlu
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Family Friendly ◽  
The World ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Day By Day ◽  
Working Fathers

Work-life and work-family-life balance can be expressed as the balance between the demands of an individual's work life and private life, and the demands of work life and family life. The issue of ensuring the harmony between work-family and work-life is taken into consideration by researchers, and studies on this subject are gaining momentum day by day. As in many countries around the world, family-friendly organization practices are taking place in Turkey to address this situation, and many social policies are implemented in order to harmonize the areas of work-life and work-family life. However, although studies on working women are included in detail, studies related with working fathers are very rare. In the study, the concepts of work-life balance and work-family-life balance will be discussed in detail. In addition, the fact of being a working father for working fathers who tend to establish work-family-life balance, and the thoughts of working fathers about whether they can establish a work-family-life balance will be discussed within the scope of the interviews.

scholarly journals PATERNITY LEAVE (CUTI AYAH): Apa, Bagaimana dan untuk Apa?

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 351-366
Author(s):  
Dewi Ariyani
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Parental Leave ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
Paid Leave ◽  
Paternity Leave ◽  
The World ◽  
Leave Policy ◽  
Better Than

Abstract: Paternity leave is part of the parental leave program. Paternity leave is a leave policy given to male workers by many reason, when childbirth or adopting a child. Paternity leave is essential for reconciling work and family life for men. In fact, paternity leave is still a debate in various countries. According to data from the World Labor Organization (ILO), in 2013 there have been 79 countries that set policy on paternity leave officially. The policies of these countries vary in terms of length of paid leave and salary payments. The paternity leave range varies from one day up to 90 days. In general, developed countries have paternity leave provisions better than others. As for salary payments, most countries set full wage payments, but others without payments. During paternity leave, fathers can interact with their children directly and build bounding attachments. Bounding attachment involves the process of enhancing the affectionate and inner attachments between parents and infants. Some things that can build bounding attachment between father and child is through the giving of touch and play together.Keyword: paternity leave, bonding attachment Abstrak: Paternity leave merupakan salah satu bagian dari program parental leave. Paternity leave adalah kebijakan cuti yang diberikan kepada pekerja laki-laki dengan alasan istri melahirkan atau pun karena mangadopsi anak. Paternity leave sangat penting untuk merekonsiliasi kehidupan kerja dan keluarga bagi pekerja laki-laki. Dalam praktiknya, paternity leave masih menjadi perdebatan di berbagai negara. Menurut data organisasi buruh dunia (ILO), pada tahun 2013 sudah ada 79 negara yang menetapkan kebijakan mengenai paternity leave secara resmi. Kebijakan negara-negara tersebut bervariasi dalam hal lama cuti yang diberikan dan pembayaran gaji/upah. Rentang waktu paternity leave bervariasi dari mulai satu hari sampai 90 hari. Secara umum negara maju mempunyai ketentuan paternity leave lebih baik daripada yang lainnya. Adapun mengenai pembayaran gaji atau upah, sebagian besar negaranegara menetapkan pembayaran upah penuh, namun ada pula yang tanpa pembayaran. Selama masa paternity leave, ayah dapat berinteraksi lebih dini dengan anak-anak mereka secara langsung dan membangun bounding attachment. Bounding attachment meliputi proses peningkatan hubungan kasih sayang dan keterikatan batin antara orang tua dan bayi. Beberapa hal yang dapat membentuk bounding attachment antara ayah dan anak adalah melalui pemberian sentuhan dan bermain bersama.Kata kunci: paternity leave, bounding attachment

Review of Work and Family Life.

1988 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 270-271
Author(s):  
Kelly Piner
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Work And Family

Integrating Work and Family Life: “Should I Call You Dr. Mommy?”

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 50 (19) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadine J. Kaslow ◽  
Melanie J. Bliss
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Work And Family

A Look at Work and Family Research Around the World

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 50 (26) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherylle J. Tan
Keyword(s):  
Work And Family ◽  
Family Research ◽  
The World
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