“A Detailed Research Study on Work-Life Balance of Working Women Employees in An Academic Sector”

In terms of Indian context, the concern over work-life balance is gradually becoming a common talk especially for women employees. Work life balance is a state of equilibrium in which the demand of both professional and personal life is equal. Each role having different set of demands and when such role demands overlap, multiple problems are faced. In reality life and work over-lap and interact. In designing the work life policies employer should think that the commitment of employees can make the difference between those companies which compete at the marketplace and those which cannot. A balanced life for women is one where they spread their energy and effort between key areas of importance. This research study aims to figure out the working environment of public sector banks for women employees and what is the perception of women about the initiative and policies of banks and effects of those initiatives on their lives. Chi square test is applied in this paper to check the authenticity of data given by the respondents. The research is conducted among working women in banks with special reference to SBI, Bhopal (M.P.) city head office. We suggest that Work-Life Balance is not a problem to be solved. It is an ongoing issue to be managed.

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Impact of Work Life Balance and Stress Management on Job Satisfaction among the Working Women in Public Sector Banks

International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences ◽

10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilshs.26.63 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 26 ◽

pp. 63-70 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Rajesh K. Yadav ◽

Shriti Singh Yadav

Keyword(s):

Job Satisfaction ◽

Public Sector ◽

Stress Management ◽

Working Women ◽

Secondary Data ◽

Work Life ◽

Work Life Balance ◽

Life Balance ◽

Public Sector Banks ◽

Women Employees

In today’s competitive environment, work life balance and stress management for women employees is highly desirable and if there is no job satisfaction and regularity in life, it can create a problem for working women. Stress of work life balance is seen in every corner of the world which occurs to everyone. It becomes critical when there is no job satisfaction. Work life balance requires, getting stability between professional work and personal work, so that it reduces friction between official and domestic life. The final performance of any organization depends on the performance of its employees, which in turn depends on several factors. These factors can be related to job satisfaction. An empirical study is conducted among the working women of public sector banks with the purpose of assessing impact of work life balance and stress management on job satisfaction. Secondary data is used to understand and conclude the study. Observation during the study suggests that WLB and Stress management can be achieved by the factors responsible for job satisfaction such as: encouraging social groups, accommodating working conditions, mentally challenging work, impartial rewards and employee oriented policies etc. To conclude the study, it is suggested that Work-Life Balance and stress management is not a problem to be solved, it is a constant issue to be managed.

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Work Life Balance of Women Employees of it Sector during Remote Working

Regular issue - International Journal of Management and Humanities ◽

10.35940/ijmh.g1267.035721 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (7) ◽

pp. 62-65

Author(s):

Ganesh C. Naga ◽

Nagaraja. P. ◽

Sumalatha P.

Keyword(s):

Working Women ◽

Working Hours ◽

Work Life ◽

Professional Life ◽

Personal Life ◽

Work Life Balance ◽

Work Place ◽

Life Balance ◽

Work From Home ◽

Women Employees

In this paper, an endeavor has been made to track down the professional and the personal difficulties and enhancers for work life balance among working women during work from home through a study of 100 ladies working in the IT area in India. The primary difficulties in professional life were discovered to be expanded working hours, travel time from home to work place, and additional tasks engaged by them. Where as in personal life, the primary anxieties were blame from elders for not being taken care of family. Most of the women would incline toward adaptable planning, flexi-time, and strong spouse, family, and companions just as a climate helpful for work at the workplace.

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Workplace Issues and Challenges of Women Employees

Holistic Research Perspectives Vol.5 ◽

10.47059/ciir/bp20002/10 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 116-123

Author(s):

Dr. J. Arthi

Keyword(s):

Working Women ◽

Work Life ◽

Work Life Balance ◽

Child Rearing ◽

Life Balance ◽

Workplace Issues ◽

Women In The Workplace ◽

Women Employees ◽

And Gender ◽

Awareness Level

Women employees are facing more challenges in their day-to-day life. Hence, to maintain their work-life balance, they are crossing many hurdles, wherein workplace issues has been one of the major challenges faced by every women employee in the world. The reason being much harassment is occurring against the women employees in all employment sectors. Even though there are more legal remedies and statutory labour welfare measures to protect women in the workplace. The foremost issues of working women globally are career progression, pay parity, harassment, child rearing and work-life balance. Hence, there is a sheer necessity to understand the aforementioned issues. The present chapter intended to analyze the workplace issues of working women as an outcome of a program conducted on legal awareness for students and working women. In furtherance, the researcher has used the data sources from the project sponsored by NCW (National Commission for Women), wherein in both gender were taken as respondents. The study included 148 respondents out of which there are working women and students from both the genders and analysed in two dimensions, one is from the perspective of working women about workplace issues and other from students’ perspective to understand awareness level on workplace issues of women employees. The results showed that working women respondents have strongly agreed that workplace harassments and conflict of work-life balance are stronger issues than other challenges like shiftsystem, long working hours and gender discrimination. Also, the students (both male and female) revealed that awareness level of male students regarding workplace issues is good and opined that conflict in work-life balance and work doing night shift are predominant issues of working women and awareness of female students indicated that sexual harassment and child rearing are the major hurdles in their career progress.

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Work Life Balance Of Female Crew In The Aviation Industry: A Case Study

GIS Business ◽

10.26643/gis.v14i6.11699 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 14 (6) ◽

pp. 206-212

Author(s):

Dr. D. Shoba ◽

Dr. G. Suganthi

Keyword(s):

Family Life ◽

Work Life ◽

Work Life Balance ◽

Aviation Industry ◽

Life Balance ◽

International Airport ◽

Work Pressure ◽

Women Employees ◽

High Level

Employees and employers are facing issues in work life balance. It has become a difficult domain now, because the work needs have increased due to an increase in work pressure and complexities in handling the technology. As there are drastic changes in the rules and regulations in the work scenario of the aviation industry, it makes work life balance of employees difficult and set more hurdles. Hence there are many distractions and imbalances in the life of women employees in the aviation industry working across all levels. This work pressure is creating high level of hurdles in maintaining a harmonious job and family life, especially for female aviation employees. Data is collected from 50 female crew members working at Cochin International Airport. The objective of this study is to analyze the work life balance of working females of Cochin International Airport and its influence on their personal and specialized lives. The result of the study shows that the management should frame certain policies which will help employees to have the balance among their personal and expert lives.

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