Abstract:
Women’s most important roles in the Islamic lifestyle are those of maternity and rearing children, but today many women, because they have a job, are also obligated to play a correct occupational role, and therefore striking a balance between occupational and maternal roles is of particular importance. In recent years, the number of female members of academic staff has been on the increase, and since these women have undertaken a great volume of occupational tasks, achieving the equilibrium between their occupational and familial roles involves certain difficulties. Thus, using the qualitative research method, the present study aims to identify the women’s strategies for finding the balance. To this aim, interviews with 20 female members of academic staff and a content analysis of the interviews have been conducted to extract the strategies. According to the research findings, the strategies include eight categories: diligent efforts to achieve occupational goals, efforts to be a good mother, self-effacement, reduction of occupational goals, time management, a division of labor, family planning, and outsourcing of some family tasks.
Machine summary:
Based on the findings, the strategies for establishing a balance between occupational and maternal roles included eight main categories: "hardworking effort towards occupational goals," "effort to be a good mother," "self-forgetfulness," "reduction of occupational goals," "time management," "division of labor," "childbearing measures," and "outsourcing some family affairs.
(Razeghi Nasrabad and Hosseini, 1398, 111) One of the groups whose numbers have increased in recent years is women who are faculty members; they, in addition to performing their professional duties and being involved in extensive intellectual, educational, research, and scientific activities that are not limited to the geographic scope of the workplace, also undertake important and highly responsible maternal and marital roles, and carry the heavy burden of human education both in the home environment and in the university environment.
(1400), in a study involving a meta-analysis of 49 researches, identified work-family balance strategies as commitment, time management, managerial ability, having a coach or mentor, self-care, utilizing social supports such as seeking help from others for childcare and performing household chores, boundary setting between work and non-work activities including temporal, behavioral, physical, and communicative tactics, role prioritization, job sharing, telecommuting, and life management.
Based on the analysis performed, the strategies for establishing balance between professional and maternal roles were categorized into 8 categories: "hardworking effort towards professional goals," "effort for good motherhood," "self-forgetfulness," "reduction of professional goals," "time management," "division of labor," "childbearing measures," and "outsourcing some family affairs.
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