Women, Patriarchy & Work-life Balance: A Qualitative Study

Abstract

One of the key themes under women’s development is work-life balance. According to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development of UNDP, a key focus area is enhancing women’s agency, capabilities and participation in decision-making processes. Patriarchal societies characterized by traditional gender norms have hindered the efforts of gender equality and work-life balance. It is interesting that the labor force participation rate for women in India is a U-shaped curve, with more women in the workforce at extremely low and high levels of income and education (Olsen & Mehta, 2006) and the majority of middle India displaying more traditional gender role norms (governed by patriarchy). Upon analyzing the types of researches conducted we find that one stream of research examined the impact of globalization on female in workforce participation (Sonpar & Kapur, 2001) and the psychosocial perspective of gender.

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