| dc.description.abstract | The progress of education level increases female population in the man power market, which impacts the nature between work and family, the traditional concept of “men go out for work, women stay at home” is changed accordingly. As female walks out of the family and joins the work market, men and women are urged to reconsider about the multiple roles play and responsibility share. Female, other than original family duties, needs to face work demands requested from employer; Male, due to female enters into job, except his own workload, is pushed to share traditional family loading occupied by female in the past. The work and family conflict starts since then. This study is focus on “work-family population” with permanent job, facing work & family stress, the two different genders, under the implication between work and family, suffers from different stress and conflict.
Data collected through structured questionnaires revealed several sex differences in work-family conflict and other research variables, as below:
(1) In “work demands”, work load has more impact on women than on men.
(2) In “work resources”, family supportive policies & organizational family support” have more impact on men than on women.
(3) In “family resources”, relatives living close has more impact on women than on men.
(4) No significant sex differences in “family demands”.
(5) No significant sex differences in “time-base”, “strain base”, and “behavior base” work family conflict.
(6) No significant sex differences in “time-base”, “strain base”, and “behavior base” family work conflict
In addition, by way of interviews with different people, this study penetrates and reveals some interesting points and deep thoughts, which, the statistic outcomes can never express. The purpose is, wishing that, under the resources provided by government and enterprise, the work-family population can find out the best solution, so, the work-family conflict becomes no more an inevitable dilemma, and the swing scale can reach its balance at the end. | en_US |