Working Women's Strategy for Work-Care Balance: The Case of University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Predictors of Work-Family Role Conflict and Its Impact on Professional Women in Medicine, Engineering, and Information Technology in Nigeria

“…A study done in Bangladesh reveals that some women are able to strike this balance by giving prominence to their families rather than their jobs. 26 Other authors argue that women with more family responsibilities and child care will experience more family role conflict. 24 It is reasonable to assume (as seen in other research) that the presence of young children and family dependents would influence work-family role conflict for women, but this study has proven otherwise.…”

A temporal gaze on work-life balance in academia: Time, gender, and transitional episodes in Bangladeshi women faculty narratives

“…Such trends, in turn, shape local WLB practices in Bangladesh as more individuals, particularly women, occupy economic work spaces. While Bangladeshi women’s socio-economic mobility is increasing due to a rapidly developing economy, ‘working women’ are still expected to perform domestic tasks for their families (Basak & Akter, 2022 ; Hossain & Rokis, 2014 ; Tasnim et al, 2017 ; Uddin, 2021 ). Such middle-income aspirations assume that only paid activities constitute work, overlooking histories of shadow (care/nature) work, often done by but not restricted to women, who are then expected to also engage in paid work (Adam, 2002 ).…”

“…Second, Bangladeshi gendered academia reflects larger temporal landscapes that shape WLB among women faculty, where official WLB policies or institutional practices are absent. 4 Amid the absence of official WLB policies and practices, like other Global South contexts, Bangladeshi women rely on informal practices of temporal flexibility to address their WLB needs (Hossain & Rokis, 2014 ; Tabassum & Rahman, 2020 ). Among the 15,571 academic members in Bangladesh, only 4,472 are women (Abbas, 2017 ).…”

“…While Global North governments adopt WLB public health policies (Fetherston et al, 2020 ; Ren & Caudle, 2016 ), in other parts of the world such policies remain absent. The absence of WLB policies may explain why WLB among women faculty in the Global South remains understudied (Hossain & Rokis, 2014 ; Raburu, 2015 ). Furthermore, a temporal gaze underlying WLB among women faculty in Global South contexts remains untheorized.…”

“…Few studies exclusively consider WLB, much less a temporal gaze, among South Asian (SA) women academics (Basak & Akter, 2022 ; Happy, 2021 ; Hossain & Rokis, 2014 ; Welmilla, 2020 ). While scholarship on SA women academics covers a wide range of issues, such as academic freedom, job satisfaction, academic identity, research contributions, and career experiences in male-dominated disciplines (Das & Parabhoi, 2020 ; Fakhr & Messenger, 2020 ; Safiullah & Sumi, 2014 ), most focus on SA women’s inability to access top levels of academic leadership due to gender inequality (Ali & Rasheed, 2021 ; Bhatti & Ali, 2020 ; Farooq et al, 2020 ; Gandhi & Sen, 2021 ).…”