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Title: An increase in females’ full-time participation rate in the labour market : implications on work-family balance in Malta
Authors: Barbara, Kylie
Keywords: Women -- Employment -- Malta
Work-life balance -- Malta
Work and family -- Malta
Working mothers -- Malta
Issue Date: 2020
Citation: Barbara, K. (2020). An increase in females’ full-time participation rate in the labour market: implications on work-family balance in Malta (Bachelor's dissertation).
Abstract: This research reflects women’s engagement in the labour market and its implications on work-family balance in Malta. Additionally, this study provides an insight of the motivating factors that encourage Maltese women at work as well as in what ways work-family balance is established by the working mothers. Moreover, this study questions whether both partners or spouses perform equitable sharing of household chores and parenting responsibilities and what sort of conflict do mothers encounter between the interplay of work and family domain. In consideration of the objectives of the research study, this study was carried out through qualitative semi-structured interviews with 10 mothers, employed on full-time basis either in a professional or skilled occupation who received substantial training or education prior to employment, and live in a heterosexual dual-earner household and had young children. As a result from the participants’ responses, this dissertation acknowledged the sense of guilt endured by the interviewed working mothers due to social perception. The findings indicated that job flexibility and the provision of care assisted working mothers to establish work-family balance. Also, this study identified how working mothers feel that they are still accountable of household chores and parenting responsibilities. Yet, from the viewpoint of the interviewed working mothers, the findings illustrated that fathers tend to concentrate on their parenting responsibilities and they perform as a “helper-role” (Coltrane & Galt, 2000) in household chores. Lastly, work-family conflict and also, time pressure, have been reported as struggles that the interviewed working mothers encounter throughout their lived activities.
Description: B.A.(HONS)SOCIOLOGY
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/62759
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Dissertations - FacArtSoc - 2020

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