Abstract:
Work life balance is an important issue for the researchers and organizations. The
term work-life balance is used to define how employees balance their work and family
commitments successfully. According to various studies, work and non work
commitments if not managed well can result in work-life conflict and make employees'
life difficult. Work life conflict can result in a number of negative consequences
including stress, poor performance, and low productivity. On the other hand, it can cause
problem in employees' personal life with their family/spouse. This research study focuses
women's productivity and how it is affected by components of work-life balance like
women's domestic responsibilities and organization's role. The type of study is
exploratory, and it explores the level of work-life balance among women working in
education sector of Pakistan specifically in Islamabad. Firstly, it investigates how
demographic factors like age, experience, marital status and number of children affect a
woman's productivity at work; secondly, it investigates if there is any relationship
between women's productivity and their domestic responsibilities. Women in Pakistani
context are expected to fulfill a number of tasks at the same time; they are expected to
look after the family, the extended family, the home. Therefore, Pakistani working
women are an important subject to study in this regard. In addition to this, role of
educational institutes in helping women manage their work and home successfully is also
investigated in this report. The investigation is done by surveying female faculty
members from a number of educational institutes of Islamabad. The results were
interpreted using the software, SPSS. The results are then analyzed by comparing them
with the literature review written in the light of early studies. The report concludes with
the recommendation and bibliography.
