Abstract
The role of working women has changed throughout the world due to economic conditions and social demands. This has resulted in a scenario in which working women have tremendous pressure to develop a career as robust as their male counterparts while sustaining active engagement in personal life. The ever-increasing work pressure is taking a ring on the working women leaving them with less time for themselves. The increasing responsibilities on the personal front with the technological blessings like advanced mobile phones, notepads, etc. that keeps work life integrated with personal life also creates stress on personal and professional fronts in this knowledge age. This affects the person’s physical, emotional and social well-being. Thus, achieving work life balance is a necessity for working women to have a good quality of life. This paper is an attempt to explore the tough challenges faced by working women in maintaining a balance between their personal and professional life. The various factors affecting the work-life balance of married working women have been examined in this study. The tool used for the study is the manual on work–life balance of The Industrial Society. Data were subjected to descriptive statistics and it was found that the problems faced by the working women of Pune Maharashtra state in terms of work-life balance are quite high. The results also indicate that the work-life balance of individuals affect their quality of life.
Highlights
Women of the early centuries were mostly restricted to their kitchens and those who were employed worked in factories, farms or shop works
This paper focuses on the tough life of married working women of Pune Maharashtra in their battle to strike a balance between work and family life
We find that out of the total 180 married working women respondents of Pune, 127 (70.56%) of them felt that work-life balance was the biggest challenge that they faced while 53 (29.44%) of them felt that work-life balance was not their biggest challenge
Summary
Women of the early centuries were mostly restricted to their kitchens and those who were employed worked in factories, farms or shop works. The fast developing knowledge economy has given place for more number of women to be enlightened by higher education. With brain power being the requisite skill in this knowledge era, rather than endurance or physical strength, the women workers seem to flood into every industry on par with men. This has become a tough challenge for women as they have to perform a lot of duties in home and office as well. As working women get married, they have additional responsibilities and when they become mothers, they have to manage the primary care of children and extended family and are under greater pressure to continue on a career path
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