A study on women, employment and family balance in Sri Lanka

Abstract

There was a great cordial interrelationship between women role and family in past traditional society. But Women contribution to the economy of the family is a major component in today. Women are not marginalized to the domestic works because of the access of higher education in Sri lanker. Main objective of this study is to understand how women balance family and employment in sociological aspect. As the specific objectives of this study were to understand educational and economic achievement gained by women, to understand all responsibilities of women towards family, to recognition negative results balancing both fields, to understand alternatives and fair management to avoid role conflict of the women of these two fields and understanding satisfaction or non satisfaction by doing a job by women also been considered from this study in a sociological point of view. This study used purposive sampling method and selected only 60 women from several institutions related to dual career families for the sample. Both primary and secondary data were used by this study. This study found majority of women were with low stress when they manage the family. The study identified there was a positive-contribution of the employed mother to their children‘s education. Good relationship of both-wife and husband to the domestic works and making social relations was a significant of this study. According to this study it found that majority of women were satisfied with both employment and domestic works not only doing single domestic task. There is a good and proper savings maintained by women. Economical issue was the main cause for family troubles of the dual career family and mostly women taken assists from husband, children and parents to manage their day today works.