In today’s competitive world, the pressures of work have been escalating and there is a growing feeling among employees that the demands of work begin to dominate life and a sense of work life imbalance is felt. Thus, finding a balance between work and life in today’s swift world presents a major challenge to both the employer and employee.
This article seeks to explore the variation among men and women academicians with regards to overall job satisfaction, job stressors and work family conflict that influence overall balance among the academicians. Data were collected via questionnaire. T-test and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were used to find out the important component to persist balance. The result indicates that women faculty members as compared to the male faculty members exhibit a high degree of dissatisfaction with regards to career, family responsibilities and work life integration issues while balancing the work life domain.
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