An Empirical Study on Demographic Elements of Work Life Balance with Reference to Women Academicians in Higher Education in Rajasthan

ABSTRACT

Our lives revolve around work. It gives us a sense of success, recognition, and most importantly, a way to get money to meet our basic necessities. Work can interfere with family life and family can interfere with work, causing conflict and making work-life balance difficult. The line separating family life from work is becoming increasingly hazy. Combining family obligations with paid work presents major difficulties, according to research on work-life balance (WLB). The purpose of this study is to examine the demographic components of academicians work-life balance (WLB) in higher education sector. This study aims to determine how work-life balance is affected by several factors, like Age Group, Marital status, Employment of Spouse, Spouses highest qualification, Nature of Spouses work, working hours of spouse, No. of children, Age group of children, Nature of respondents employment, Income group, Nature of organization, Designation, Tenure of working in the current organization, Overtime working, paid for overtime working etc. This study uses an explanatory research approach and collects primary data from 500 respondents via questionnaires. This study identified that demographic factors affecting work-life balance have immense impact on academicians working in the higher education sector.

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