Work-Life Balance continuess...

Work – Life Balance continues…

Today, it is second day on the row to discuss about work-life balance. Today I want to discuss about gender biasness towards this issue.

As we all know, India is a male dominating country. In India we have very less working women. Infect the number has increased in recent years and so are the problems faced by these women at workplace as well as their homes. In India, most of the working women have to do their normal duty at homes as well. Very few are exception to the cause. So, it becomes very important for these women to have a proper balance between workplace and their homes.

We have seen that in any of the job or in any type of organizations, employees have to devote their full time, mind & energy to work for that organization. Now if a women goes back to her home after working for 8-9 long working hours, how one can expect her to be full of energy to take care of her home as well with same energy?

Unlike males, who are not likely to work at home, women are definitely expected to work at home, at least taking Indian scenario into consideration. Also, she has to manage her workplace as well.

So this again gives rise to same problem as imbalanced work-life situation. If she tries to maintain this balance or tries to maintain equilibrium between the both, she feels much stressed and then problems like divorce and other consequences appear before them.

Cases like maternity increases the risk more towards this. According to Wikipedia, Today there are many young women who do not want to just stay at home and do house work, but want to have careers. About 64% of mothers whose youngest child was under age six, and 77% of mothers with a youngest child age 6-17 were employed in 2010, indicating that the majority of women with dependent care responsibilities cannot or do not wish to give up careers. While women are increasingly represented in the work force, they still face challenges balancing work and home life. Both domestic and market labor compete for time and energy. “For women, the results show that that only time spent in female housework chores has a significant negative effect on wages”.

So what could be the solution or suggestions to maintain this imbalance, apart from 6 ways suggested yesterday, proper scheduling of work for females should be done by HR dept of those organizations in which females are working. HR dept should take care of females working for their organization with respect to timings and projects and assignments handed over to females.

Tomorrow, we will discuss last element of the topic as what is the relation between age and work-life balance. Till then, Good Night… OPEN UP…!!! And Stay Happy… :)

Comments and suggestions are welcome… :)