The Importance Of Work And Family Life

Work life and family life are the two important fields that a working person gives priority. Presently these two lives have become important for a woman because of educational opportunities, increasing cost of living and ample employment prospects. To accomplish the balance of two sides there should be less interference from one domain into other. Work life balance can be explained as maintaining equilibrium between house-hold and job related activities. Work life balance is the balancing act of work and family where there is satisfaction from both the sides. It can be explained as the role played by an individual in family life and at work place in a balancing manner. Even though the word 'equilibrium maintained' is used, it is not the equal …show more content…
Urbanization has changed many of the family structure. Many of the joint families have opted for nuclear one. Support from other members of the family reduced. For a better living, woman in the house chose to take job and dual earning system flourished. The role woman played in the organization has been appreciated and encouraged. As more women entered the workforce the imbalance of work and family life has been noticed. When the demands from both end increases the imbalance is sensed. This study tries to find out the extent of interference from one domain to other among women employees working in information technology companies in Bangalore. This study tries to understand the interference of family life into work and the impact on job satisfaction. In order to find out the impact on job satisfaction, the family satisfaction aspect also has to be studied to understand the interference. This intrusion of the family issues into the work and vice-versa has not been an important topic of discussion a decade ago in Indian …show more content…
This results in weakening of the quality of family and social life. Economical independency of woman in some cases has resulted in divorces, single-parent families and breakage of joint families to nuclear one. Another problem faced by the women employees include extension of work hours, more demand from the job leads to stress and exhaustion. This extra exertion is affecting health and unnecessary family disputes which can be defined as an imbalance of work and life. For most of the women it is the bringing together of the responsibilities of taking care of the family and that of work. For others it is the overlapping of the pressure from work domain to family and vice versa. Studies have shown that involvement of men in employment is high while compared to women. This states that women are engaged more in the other activities like care of children, elderly members and other household chores. Recent trend has shown that participation of women in the work force has stimulated the economy. This has forced the organization to understand and gather the requirements of women to attract and retain them