Relationships among the Attitude towards Multiple Role Planning, Cognitive Flexibility, Gender Role Attitude, Employer Sensitivity and the Experience of Multiple Roles

This study aims to analyze the short story, The Spell and the Ever Changing Moon (2014) by Rukhsana Ahmad, from the feminist perspective. A close reading of the text reveals that facing everyday challenges and juggling between multiple roles is a common practice for middleclass house wives in Pakistani society. The economic instabilities added with emotional, psychological as well as physical abuse plays a vital role in their oppression and humiliation on regular basis. These roles as assigned to them define their social standing and suffering becomes their destiny. Multiple roles of such women and social expectations outside and inside the house define their way of living. Each and every movement and thought becomes codependent on their social familial roles. Being selfless becomes an obligation and ‘sacrifice’ becomes convention for middle class women who spend their whole lives living under the thumb of their men folk. Moreover, the movement and status of women inside and outside the home is also a major concern addressed in this paper including the concept of home, and its significance in lives of Pakistani women.

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A path analysis on Birthplan of married working Women - Focus on the relationships of gender role attitude, work -family reconciliation, marriage satisfaction and birth plan-

Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies ◽

10.16999/kasws.2012.43.4.5 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 43 (4) ◽

pp. 5-30 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jinsook Lee ◽

최원석

Keyword(s):

Gender Role ◽

Path Analysis ◽

Working Women ◽

Gender Role Attitude ◽

Marriage Satisfaction ◽

Birth Plan ◽

Work Family

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Effects of Women’s Work-Family Multiple Role and Role Combination on Depressive Symptoms in Korea

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph17041249 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (4) ◽

pp. 1249

Author(s):

Ji-won Kang ◽

Soong-nang Jang

Keyword(s):

Depressive Symptoms ◽

Missing Values ◽

Longitudinal Survey ◽

Multiple Roles ◽

Multiple Role ◽

Raw Data ◽

Negative Effect ◽

Work Family ◽

Caregiver Role

This study set out to investigate the effects of multiple roles on depressive symptoms in women. The role of women was divided into worker, household worker, spouse, parent, and caregiver roles to identify the differences in depressive symptoms according to the number of roles, role-fulfillment, and role-combination. Using the sixth raw data of the 2016 Korean Longitudinal Survey of Women and Families for analysis, the data had 6198 respondents who did not have missing values in the major variables. There are three main findings of this study: (1) as the number of roles increased, depressive symptoms of women was decreased. In addition, role-combination was a more meaningful element; (2) women who did not have any roles tended to be more depressed; (3) the caregiver role showed a negative effect on depressive symptoms of women. This study was to include the various aspects of women’s roles and to determine the effects of multi-roles on depressive symptoms in women.

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