A Phenomenological Study on the Experience of Work and Family Life of Part-time Working Women at the Public Sectors

AbstractIn 2004, 9 per cent of female employees took advantage of the system of ‘career break’ or ‘time credit’ in Flanders, compared to only 3 per cent of male workers. Although the number of men taking a career break is increasing, they remain a small group. In this article the time use of men interrupting their careers full-time or part-time is compared to that of full-time working men, using representative time use data from 2004. Analyses show that a career break does not imply a reduced workload. Half of the men interrupting their career full-time do so to try out another job. Men who take part-time leave are mainly motivated by their desire for a better work and family life balance. About 80 per cent of the time they gain by working on a part-time basis is allocated to household and childcare activities. This suggests that encouraging men to work fewer hours could well be the best policy for achieving gender equality.

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Work and Family Life: Contemporary Realities, Current Expectations and Future Prospects

Australasian Journal of Early Childhood ◽

10.1177/183693919802300308 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 23 (3) ◽

pp. 33-39 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Alan Hayes ◽

Helen M.G. Watt

Keyword(s):

Family Life ◽

Nuclear Family ◽

Work And Family ◽

Early Childhood Program ◽

Future Prospects ◽

Childhood Program ◽

The Face ◽

Part Time ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

The relationship of work and family life is increasingly complex. Many families are forced to create a complicated patchwork of child care arrangements to accommodate the demands of their work. The average hours worked per week are increasing and part-time and casual work are becoming the norm for many workers, particularly women. Recently, there has been a nostalgic appeal by some politicians and their constituents for a return to a simpler world where work and family life were less intricately interwoven. While appealing to its adherents, the call for a return to the comfortable nuclear family flies in the face of some fundamental contemporary demographic realities. This paper reports the results of a survey of the attitudes to caregiving and career of women enrolled in a university-based early childhood program. The paper is in two parts. The first sets the context for the survey, by exploring the origins of the contemporary patterns of relationship between work and family life. The second describes the survey and its results. The results indicate that attitudes to maternal care and career roles are more traditional among younger, less experienced students than among their older peers with greater experience of parenting and employment. The implications of the results and future trends in the relationship of work and family life are discussed, in the light of contemporary features of families and demographic trends.

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WOMEN RIGHTS IN SOUTH ASIA: CASE OF PAKISTAN

Pakistan Journal of International Affairs ◽

10.52337/pjia.v2i1.57 ◽

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.

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Paying the price for reconciling work and family life: Comparing the wage penalty for women's part-time work in Britain, Germany and the United States

Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis Research and Practice ◽

10.1080/13876980701311562 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 115-134 ◽

Cited By ~ 28

Author(s):

Frances McGinnity ◽

Patricia McManus

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Family Life ◽

The United States ◽

Work And Family ◽

Wage Penalty ◽

Time Work ◽

Part Time ◽

Part Time Work

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Critical theory and the work–family articulation

Capital & Class ◽

10.1177/0309816817692119 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 41 (3) ◽

pp. 475-492 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Stefano Ba’

Keyword(s):

Critical Theory ◽

Family Life ◽

Social Reproduction ◽

Work And Family ◽

Sociology Of Work ◽

Dual Nature ◽

Economic Changes ◽

The Public ◽

Social Forms ◽

Work Family

We are living in an era characterised by the repercussions of recession and austerity, and the fields of work and family are directly affected by historical changes, making the need for reformulating concepts used in the sociology of work and family quite apparent. In order to do so, this article proposes an approach inspired by Open Marxism and critical theory that will assess the contribution of specialised literature in the work–family articulation to advance original analyses and investigate relevant issues around social reproduction under capitalism. The tension between capitalism and contemporary forms of family will be framed through the concept of the dual nature of labour and family life, insofar as they entail both sensuous and abstract forms of human involvement – most notably abstract labour. Issues around the emotional patterns of family life and the mediation that families operate between ‘home’ and ‘work’ spheres will take centre stage. One of the main points is that the development of labour as abstract labour under capitalism marginalises family forms in terms of the mediation between the private and the public spheres, because it relies on a more direct social integration (or ‘synthesis’) of its subjects. However, members of families, as active subjects, create social forms and resist disruptions caused by socio-economic changes. In that sense, ‘subjectivity’ is thought to be a key concept to avoid thinking work and family as reified structures.

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Dostosowanie sposobu organizacji czasu pracy do obowiązków rodzinnych w Polsce

Studia Demograficzne ◽

10.33119/sd.2013.2.3 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 59-79

Author(s):

Anna Baranowska-Rataj ◽

Maja Rynko

Keyword(s):

Family Life ◽

Ad Hoc ◽

Labour Force ◽

Work And Family ◽

Labour Force Survey ◽

Legal Regulations ◽

Time Work ◽

Part Time ◽

Distance Work ◽

Part Time Work

This paper presents a diagnosis of reconciliation of work and parenthood in Poland based on the data from the European Labour Force Survey ad hoc module “Reconciliation between work and family life” carried out in 2010. These data provide information on the following options of combining work with parenthood duties: (1) part-time work (2) flexible arrangements of working time (3) distance work. We compare the conditions for combining work with parenthood duties in Poland with opportunities observed in other European countries. We also show to what extent the conditions for reconciliation of work and parenthood in Poland have improved in time. We make an overview of legal regulations related to combining work with childcare duties and indicate the opportunities for improvement of these policies.

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

Journal of Family Issues ◽

10.1177/0192513x211058817 ◽

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.

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Partners in parenting

Like Mother, Like Daughter? ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781447334088.003.0008 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Jill Armstrong

Keyword(s):

Family Life ◽

Crucial Role ◽

Work And Family ◽

Time Model ◽

Male Breadwinner ◽

Shared Parenting ◽

Female Part ◽

Part Time ◽

Negative Feelings

This chapter focuses on the crucial role played by partners and fathers in influencing both the positive and negative feelings mothers have about combining work with motherhood. Almost half of the partnered mothers and daughter mothers had a more or less egalitarian parenting arrangement. These mothers tended to feel more positive about their experiences of managing work and family life. Nevertheless, most of the mothers — including many with egalitarian parenting partnerships — shouldered an unequal amount of domestic responsibility. This has persisted across generations, as exemplified by the fact that over half of the daughters had or were planning to adopt the male breadwinner, female part-time model that they perceived as the ‘best of both worlds’. Motivations and experiences involved in shared parenting tend to be emotionally complex and full of contradictions.

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