Effect of Social Stressors on Work-Family Conflict Experienced by Female Faculty Members at Public Sector Schools in District Lahore, Pakistan

Abstract

The goal of this study is to find out how work-family conflict (WFC) affects the quality of service that female school faculty provide. A healthy balance between work and personal life includes both work and personal activities. Because their workloads are getting bigger, it's getting harder for women faculty members to balance work and family life. The gender gap puts more stress on the female faculty, which makes it harder for them to give good care. This study uses a positivist research paradigm to get information from female teachers in Pakistan's Lahore District public schools. The focus of this study is on female teachers from a variety of public schools in District Lahore, Pakistan. For this study, a representative sample of female teachers from 203 public schools in the Lahore District of Pakistan was chosen. Cronbach's Alpha (Sarstedt et al., 2019) ranges from 0.681 to 0.931 and a composite range of 0.826 to 0.954, which shows that the results of this study can be trusted. The Fornell-Larcker criterion (Henseler, 2015), cross-loadings, and heteronormativity are used to figure out whether the results are similar or different. Structured equation modelling (SEQ) is used to look at the data (Cheung & Wang, 2017). This study found that role ambiguity and role conflict at work, as well as interactions between parents and spouses at home, have a negative effect on WFC. People are affected by work pressures, which can lead to job stress and, in the long run, depression. When women in the academic workforce experience WFC, it makes their depression worse. Respondent views of ISQ were average when it came to dependability, empathy, responsiveness, and concreteness (Reynoso et a., 1995). WFC hurts the ISQ of female faculty members because it makes them more likely to get depressed. This study also shows that more research needs to be done using different methods, like qualitative analysis and triangulation. This means that in Pakistan, WFC in female faculty can be studied in both public and private schools. Lastly, the study makes some suggestions for future research on WFC and gives management some tips on how to help the female faculty members raise the ISQ.