Working women and the management of family

Working women often faced with the dilemma in dividing their responsibilities at the work place and managing the domestic task. From the economic aspect, they have to work in order to supplement their husband’s income due to the increase in the cost of living. Therefore, this article discusses the ways by which working women manage their responsibilities at the work place and also at home. Sampling unit is 12 families with three female generations and selection is done using the snowball technique. From the 12 families or 36 respondents, seven respondents was working previously and nine respondents are still working. Information is obtained using in-depth interviews. Findings showed that working women are faced with problems in doing the housework and also at the work place. They have to bear with the heavy responsibilities at home and do not have sufficient time to do all the tasks at onetime including taking care of their children. At the work place, they are faced with several problems such as an unfair procedure of promotion and having peer groups with different characters.