Role Conflict And Role Of Overload Among Working Mothers

Abstract

Life is like riding a bicycle. While riding a bicycle if there is an imbalance and if the rider is unable to control she may fall down. This is true in the case of all working mothers who are struggling with work-life balance issues in their livelihood. Work-life balance is the term used to describe those practices at workplace thatacknowledge and aim to support the needs of employees in achieving a balance betweenthe demands of their family and work lives. It is not a new concept. It emphasizes the values, attitude and beliefs of women regarding their age to work in organizing and balancing their work and personal life. When a woman achieves successful work life balance, she has job satisfaction and becomes highly committed .But in certain cases the women is not able to succeed due to incapability in balancing her work and personal life. As a result she withdraws from her work due to simple reasons. The present study focus on the work life balance of working mothers.