Annotation A leading theorist on sex and gender discusses how hidden assumptions embedded in our culture, social institutions, and individual psyches perpetuate male power and oppress women and sexual minorities. Illustrated.

This volume presents research on women’s experiences, attitudes and perceptions, considering their work roles and in the context of their lives outside work. It explores the various choices women may opt to take, and the resources they may use, and presents options they may wish to consider over the course of their working lives. The research presented here is varied and the methods used include cross-sectional and longitudinal research, reviews of literature, as well as experiences and practical suggestions from clinical, organisational, health and occupational health psychologists, in addition to occupational safety and health practitioners. It looks at women who are part-time employees, those in vulnerable positions in the informal economy to women in mainstream, full-time employment. The chapters present theoretical underpinnings of how, what, when and where women approach work options, approach life and approach living. The overarching factor that links these chapters is the focus on women as a vital resource in the world economy, with an exploration of the options that are available to them and how these could be maximised to retain a productive and healthy female workforce.

This study enlists certain dimensions and its implications over work life balance were identified. It also learnt from the present study that managing work life balance is channelized by the psychological makeup of an individual's especially women and that is purely as an attitude based issue. Therefore, the study concludes that work life balance practices improve the quality of work life of working women. Now the women's are occupy almost all categories of positions in the workplace. Among other occupations, teaching is reported to have positive and negative experiences about work life. The paper takes an in-depth look at work life balance considering in view of Balance in work and family life is an emerging challenge for both employees and employers.

Work-life balance is one of the most important issues facing employers and managers today. Employees at all levels are no longer willing to trade their quality of life in order to get a decent standard of living. Managers can no longer afford to ignore the costs that the long-hours culture imposes on their organisation. Overwork causes stress-related absenteeism, poor retention levels, low creativity, appalling customer service and unethical employee behaviour. Combine that with the risks of being sued by a stressed employee or a parent who wanted to work flexibly, and the business case for paying real attention to work-life issues has never been stronger. This text sets out the roadmap for moving your organisation towards a positive work-life culture. With clear and practical advice for HR and line managers alike, Managing Work-Life Balance shows you how to engage employers, managers and employees in the process of controlling the inherent conflicts between the worlds of work and home.

Comparatively, women's participation in employment has been more in the service sector. After entering in professional life, it turns into a struggle for female employees to create a balance between professional and personal life. In particular, the women of developing countries who can't set boundaries between personal responsibility and professional duty that ultimately affect employees' attitudes and behavior away from the office. Work life balance is highly desirable for women employees in current circumstances. Without job satisfaction and consistency in life, it creates a dilemma for working women. This paper attempts to identify key factors and challenges that feel overwhelmed to the female by continuous pressure derived from the high expectations of the job. In this study, researchers bring out the concentration on an emerging developing country by focusing ten leading corporate firm's female employees of the several level of the hierarchy. The respondents were interviewed with a structured questionnaire and data was analyzed by statistical tools (SPSS) for both descriptive & inferential. Multiple regressions were run to measure the relationship between the identified factors and its impacts on employee's efficiency. The result reveals that due to the personal and professional imbalance, female employees can't deliver their best effort to the organization and thus work-life conflict downwards female employees' career progress as well as the productivity of the organization.