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Work-Life Balance Among Working Married Women: What Social Workers Need To Know, Romyna A. Rendon Jun 2016

Work-Life Balance Among Working Married Women: What Social Workers Need To Know, Romyna A. Rendon

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This project explored the way working mothers cope with home, work, family demands as well as self-care. It mainly focused on the balance they have been able to achieve in their lives as working women, wife, and mothers. This study used qualitative research to examine the challenges these women face in their working and personal lives, the support systems they rely on to fulfill their multiple roles, and the strategies and coping skills they utilize to maintain work and family life balance.

This study used an interview format with a qualitative method based. In this approach, primarily open-ended questions were …