MARRIAGE, FAMILY, CAREER: MULTIPLE ROLE CONFLICT OF MARRIED WOMEN
Cecilia L . Calub
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Abstract
Home and work are two different worlds for working women and are often in conflict. Married working women are faced with problems in performing different roles, such as being a wife, a mother, a housekeeper, and an employee. The major problem a married woman faces is the tension or conflict arising from her multiple roles. The study aimed to determine: 1) how the working wives (the participants) roles were described in terms of their basic orientations towards gender role in the family; 2) how pregnancy, parenthood, success in their career affect their relationship with their husbands; 3)who, between them and their husbands, do most of the housework and child care; 4) how working wives dual role affect their life; and 5) measures to be adopted to help working wives solve dual role conflict. Thus, this study focused only on the dual role conflict that arises between the wife and the husband.
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