Towards Developing a Framework of Work-Life Balance among Dual-Career Women

Research on work-life balance gained a momentum during the past two decades. Gender roles split into work and family responsibilities in two different, specific spheres. Men were supposed to work outside the house and concentrate on their jobs, whereas women were expected to take care of home and family. As the Indian economy is one of the fastest growing economies of the world, with a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 8% in the 11th plan period, there has been a paradigm shift in women's work participation. Many women employees see time as currency that is, or is almost as, important to them as money in their dual career. This paper prepares an antecedent and consequences in a framework with certain criteria for work-life balance (WLB) for dual-career women, which would further help to prepare a WLB index and thus would help the organisations and women employees to gain advantage from each other.