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Career and goals are the most important factors in life. Most of the women are coming forward to work in order to support their family. This change is now natural and dynamic due to change of environment and economic conditions. The biggest challenge for women is how to balance the demands of family and career. The literature identifies the various aspects such as career advancement, Work Stress, Career aspiration, Work Family Conflict and Family Work Conflict, Child care in context with Work Life Balance (WLB) and its practices. This paper reveals the overview of the various challenges and issues faced by Women employees to achieve WLB. The sources referred in this paper include various journals, reports, internet sites etc. and the details has been given in the reference section.
Keywords : Work Life Balance (WLB), Women Employee, Family, Career etc.
1. INTRODUCTION
Work Life Balance of Women employee has become an important subject since the women are equally sharing the earning responsibility for the betterment of their family. Women are getting into jobs and they continue to work even after marriage. A married woman has more responsibility than man in taking care of young children and family. The working women efficiently overcome difficult situations by their commitment and perseverance. The participation of women in income generation activities lends them to satisfy their home needs to a greater extent. This paper aims to review the existing literature on Work Life Balance of Women Employee with an identification of various characteristics towards the achievement of WLB.
2. LITERATURE REVIEW
Number of studies has addressed this issue in different perspectives. Some of the papers related to this subject are reviewed.
Vijaya Mani (2013) has revealed the major factors influencing the Work Life Balance of Women professionals in India such as role conflict, lack of recognition, organizational politics, gender discrimination, elderly and children care issues, quality of health, problems in time management and lack of proper social support.
K.Santhana Lakshmi et al, (March 2013) have examined that the Educational institutions should address the Work Life Balance related issues among their staff, specifically women and take a holistic approach to design and implement the policies to support the teaching staffto manage their WLB. KumariK.Thriveni et al, (2012) have...