Open AccessIndian Women in Technology: An Empirical Analysis of Role Conflict
Author(s) -
B. Aiswarya,
G. Ramasundaram
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
malaysian management journal/malaysian management journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2289-6651
pISSN - 0128-6226
DOI - 10.32890/mmj.17.2013.8991
Subject(s) - work–family conflict , spouse , workload , work (physics) , role conflict , family conflict , function (biology) , sample (material) , social psychology , empirical research , psychology , dimension (graph theory) , demographic economics , political science , management , engineering , economics , mechanical engineering , philosophy , chemistry , mathematics , epistemology , chromatography , evolutionary biology , pure mathematics , law , biology
An important issue that our society has been facing in the recent past is the changing work and family roles of Indian women. Woman, today, function within multiple roles simultaneously operating in both work and family domains as a mother, spouse, housekeeper, as well as maintaining full-time employment outside the home. The relationship between these dual roles has thus become a topic of interest among organizational researchers. This study deals with selected antecedents and their influence on the role conflict among Indian women in technology. A sample size of 598 Indian women in technology was taken for the study and the result shows the occurrence of work-family conflict. Three predominant factors that influence the work-family conflict time-dimension are work exhaustion, work thought interference and perceived workload in the order of merit.