Title: Work Life Balance - a special reference to Working Women - a Case Study
Abstract: This paper is intended to bring out the deep insights of Work Life Balance with special reference to women. The older days of Men are to work and Women are to take care of house hold activities are no more existing. Now both men and women have to work for the better survival of the family and children. This paper gives an exclusive focus on Working Women as they are the persons who need to balance their work life without life. Also, it gives an insight of the role of employers and the measures they need to take for the protection of Women's rights. Work is part of life but work is not the only life. One should understand this clearly which makes them happy. May it be Man or Woman, they should spend some quality life with family, friends and children. This will help in the growth of the person on his own and also in the society. The life of the person is linked with the society. No one can live individually without the support of other person may it be spouse or son or daughter or friend or relation or a stranger but every time a person need the support of the other. Here comes the concept of Work - Life Balance. This paper gives the step by step research conducted on this issue and the initiatives taken by the employer for the welfare of the employee on a special reference to women. Work and family research in India As compared to work-family research in developed countries that has evolved in a distinct cross-disciplinary field of inquiry, in India it has followed two separate and disconnected paths, focus on underprivileged women that has discussed structures of patriarchy and their contribution to subordination of women at work and home and psychosocial research conducted largely from a role theory perspective that has examined work-family relations within urban settings. There has been little cross-pollination between these two streams and limited focus has been maintained on the role of the organizations. Trends in work-family research in India Decade of the 1970s. The first fillip to work and family research within the Indian context came during the mid-1970s. Events such as the declaration of 1975 as International Women's Year and the 1970s as the Women's Decade led to establishing women's studies centers across the country to release the first ever Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in India (Government of India, 1974). This report officially recorded the subordination of women by summarizing statistics of imbalanced child and adult sex ratios, in order to engage the government in women's empowerment and development. Psychosocial studies that focussed upon work and family roles of urban working
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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