A study on Work Life balance of Women employees in the IT sector with special reference to Chennai city

Abstract

This Paper aims to find the problems faced by women employees in the IT sector to balance the work place and home in Chennai City. A survey was made among 192 women employees working in IT sector in Chennai. The problems faced by women employees in the work place namely working time, assignment, conferences, training and communication. At the same time problems faced by women employees in the personal life were non supportive of family members, Not having time to attend the family functions, take care of kids, maintain relationship with the relatives and additional work at home. This paper aims to identify and analyze the factors affecting the work life balance in the work place and in the home of women employees in the IT sector in Chennai and the challenges women employees face and the strategies used to achieve work life balance. The findings and suggestions in the present study are found by applying different statistical tools to analyze the primary data collected from the 192 women employees in the IT sector at Chennai city like‘t’ test, ‘F’ test, Multiple regression analysis, rotated component matrix, Factor Analysis by Principal Component Method and One way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) by adopting the SPSS package.