Women Family Demographics and Work-Life Balance

The study examined the relationship that the family related characteristics have on women employee work-life balance (WLB) level, with the help of 316 sample data obtained from women who were working in the state of Kerala under three sectors (i.e., banks, educational institutions, and business process outsourcing [BPO]) during the period 1st January 2020 to 28th March 2020. The family-related characteristics of the respondents were assessed on the basis of seven variables (i.e., marital status, spouse status of work, kid's status, kid's number, family strength, family structure, and employee status) of care responsibility. The analysis reveals that the care responsibility is the only family related variable that has significant influence on women employee WLB level. Furthermore, the family-related variables considered in the study all together only have the potential to explain six percent of variance in women employee WLB levels, further validating the small effect that th...