Gender Roles and Work-Life Balance: Exploring the Challenges Faced by Working Parents in Dual-Career Households
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Workplace, diversity, communication, innovation, leadership, collaborationAbstract
The percentage of twin-profession houses, wherein both individuals maintain complete-time jobs, has appreciably expanded inside the modern-day workforce panorama. As this tendency develops, it poses several difficulties, mainly for running dad and mom who are looking to strike a stability between paintings and their family obligations. This look examines the complicated problems of gender roles and work-lifestyles balance in twin-career households if you want to spotlight the precise demanding situations experienced by way of working parents.
To gather thorough records from a numerous sample of dual-career dads and moms, the look makes use of a mixed-techniques method that includes both qualitative interviews and quantitative surveys. The qualitative section well-known shows the individuals' actual reviews and perceptions, supplying insightful data approximately how cultural expectations of conventional gender roles affect the dynamics of work-existence stability. The quantitative method, however, explores the statistical relationships between gender, task alternatives, familial responsibilities, and perceived paintings-existence stability.
The study's conclusions draw attention to the continued differences among women and men's percentage of domestic obligations and the outcomes these discrepancies have on how women and men integrate their private and professional lives. In addition, they take a look at exploring how cultural norms and place of work policies affect work-life balance tactics and offer opportunity techniques for fostering extra same and inspiring working environments. In the stop, this research allows us to understand the problems twin-profession households revel in better, making it less difficult to plan centered interventions to enhance gender equality and work-lifestyle stability in modern society.
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