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1Pooja Singh is an FPM Scholar, at Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. She can be reached at poojasingh48@gmail.com
2Dr. Rekha Singhal is a Faculty of Human Resource Department, at Indian Institute of Forest Management Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. She can be reached at rekhasinghal@gmail.com
Research on work–life balance gained a momentum during the past two decades. Gender roles split into work and family responsibilities in two different, specific spheres. Men were supposed to work outside the house and concentrate on their jobs, whereas women were expected to take care of home and family. As the Indian economy is one of the fastest growing economies of the world, with a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 8% in the 11th plan period, there has been a paradigm shift in women’s work participation. Many women employees see time as currency that is, or is almost as, important to them as money in their dual career. This paper prepares an antecedent and consequences in a framework with certain criteria for work–life balance (WLB) for dual-career women, which would further help to prepare a WLB index and thus would help the organisations and women employees to gain advantage from each other.
Work–life balance, Work–life benefit programmes, Work–life enrichment, Family support, Social support
JEL Classification: O15
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