Social and Family Problems: A Study of Women Executives Working In NCR

In today's fast-paced busy life, every professional has to undertake more than one responsibility, which demands striking a balance between work life and social life. The present paper examines the problems related to women executives in their social and family life. The primary objective of this paper is to analyze the perception regarding various social and family problems faced by women executives of service sector and manufacturing sector. The primary data has been collected, from 120 working executives, through structured interview. The purposive sampling method has been used to conduct interview. Further the collected data analyzed with the help of statistical tools like frequency distribution, 'mean and standard deviation. To test the hypothesis, t-test and ANOVA have been used and to find out correlation between social and Family problems, Karl Pearson coefficient of correlation has been applied. The study concluded that the women executives living in nuclear family, having children, without domestic help, experience less of work life balance as having dependents in their family has shown higher degree of agreement about mentioned social and family problems.

Keywords

Work life Policies Women Executives Social and Family Problems Personal Support System NCR

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Sunita Bishnoi, Gurjeet Kaur . (2014). Social and Family Problems: A Study of Women Executives Working In NCR. DIAS Technology Review, 10(2), 50-59.

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[1] Beena, C. (1999). Role Conflict, Role Ambiguity and Role Overload of Women Executives in Organisations. PhD Thesis submitted to Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, Kerala.

[2] Bielby, W. and Bielby, D. (1992). “I Will Follow Him: Family Ties, Gender-Role Beliefs and Reluctance to Relocate for a Better Job”. The American Journal of Sociology, 97(5), pp. 1241–1267.

[3] Buddhapriya (2009). “Work-Family Challenges and their Impact on Career Decisions: A Study of Indian Women Professionals”. Vikalpa, 34(1), pp. 31–45.

[4] Davidson and Cooper (1983). Stress and the Women Manager. Martin Robertson & Company, Oxford.

[5] Davidson, M.J. and Cooper, C.L. (1986). “Executive Women under Pressure”. International Review of Applied Psychology, 35(3), pp. 301–325.

[6] Eswari (2009). “Problems Faced by the Working Women in the Era of Globalisation”. SSRN, accessed on 25 Sept 2012.

[7] Gunavathy and Suganya (2007). “A Study of Work Life Balance in BPO Sector”. University of Madras, Chennai.

[8] Joshi, R.J. (1990). Women in Management: Perceptions and Attitudes of Managers. Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, 26(2), 175–182.

[9] Khetarpal, A. and Kochar, G. (2005). “Role Stress and Preventive Management”. The Internet Journal of World Health and Societal Politics, 3(1).

[10] Komarraju (1997). “The Work-Family Interface in India”. In Parasuraman, S. and Greenhaus, J.H. (Eds.), Integrating Work and Family: Challenges for a Changing World. Westport, CT: Quorum Books, pp. 104–114.

[11] Kumar and Sunder (Dec 2012). “A Study on Women Employees in Banks in Pondicherry Union Territory India”. ArthPrabhand: A Journal of Economics and Management, 1(3).

[12] Kumar and Sunder (July 2012). “Problems Faced by Women Executives Working in Public Sector Banks in Puducherry”. International Journal of Marketing, Financial Services and Management Research, 1(7), pp. 160–193.

[13] Malhotra, N.K. and Dash, S. (2011). Marketing Research and Applied Orientation. Pearson, 6th Edition, p.173.

[14] McKinsey & Company (2012). “Women Matter: An Asian Perspective – Harnessing female talent to raise corporate performance”. mckinsey.com, accessed on 7 Dec 2013.

[15] Patwa, P. (2011). “Work-Life Balance: A Cross Sectional Study of Banking and Insurance Sector”. International Journal of Research in Commerce, IT and Management, 1(3).

[16] Rastogi and Bansal (2012). “What is the Priority of Today’s Indian Woman Professionals? Career or Family: A Study of Decisions”. IRESS, 2(2), pp. 176–187.

[17] Reeta Chakrabarti (Nov 2013). “Women bankers break through in India”. BBC News, Mumbai, accessed on 6 Dec 2013.

[18] Rout, U.R., Lewis, S. and Kagan, C. (1999). Work and Family Roles: Indian Career Women in India and the West. Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 6(1), 91–105.

[19] Sekaran (1992). Middle-Class Dual-Earner Families and their Support Systems in Urban India. In Lewis, S., Izraeli, D.N. and Hootsmans, H. (Eds.), Dual-earner Families: International Perspectives. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, pp. 46–61.

[20] Shiva, G. (2013). “A Study on Work Family Balance and Challenges Faced By Working Women”. IOSR Journal of Business and Management, 14(5), pp. 01–04.

[21] Siobhan E. Austen and Elisa R. Birch (2000). Family Responsibilities and Women’s Working Lives. Curtin University site, accessed on 5 Dec 2013.