A Study On Work - Life Balance, Family-Work Conflict And Work-Family Conflict Among Women Nurses Of Government Hospitals In Thoothukudi District

Abstract

The need and necessity of enjoying the comforts and facilities of modern life compels both men and women in facilities to share the responsibility of earning well. As the time has changed women as nurses from housekeeping, they have stepped out to shoulder the burden of family maintenance. The present study is confined to working women nurses of Government hospitals in Thoothukudi district. It necessitates the collection of primary information for the execution of this study on work - life balance, family-work conflict and work-family conflict among women nurses of government hospitals. For the purpose of data collection, taluk-wise lists of women nurses were obtained from the Deputy Director of Medical Services in every 10 taluks. Thoothukudi district comprises of 10 taluks and Government Hospitals situated at 10 taluks (places) in the district. The number of permanent women nurses in each taluk including doctors, nurses, technicians, pharmacists, and as on date 31^st March 2020 were recorded for selecting samples for primary data collection. To give a specific focus to the objectives, the following null hypotheses have been formulated to test the women nurses working in urban and rural areas of Government hospitals by using appropriate statistical tool. A sample of 25 percent of the women nurses was accurately concentrated in the selected 10 taluks of the Thoothukudi district. Therefore, there were 100 sample women nurses from urban 80 and rural 20 randomly selected from the above-mentioned 10 taluks by stratified proportionated random sampling method. work - life balance, family-work conflict and work-family conflict have been examined.