A gender analysis of work-family commitment and job satisfaction of university teachers in northern Karnataka

A gender analysis of work-family commitment and job satisfaction of university teachers was carried out on a sample of 165 teachers drawn from 3 cities of northern Karnataka. Teachers offering UG/PG courses in agriculture/science faculty belonging to assistant professor to professor and above cadre were randomly and proportionately selected. Results revealed that more than half of the state agricultural university (SAU) (54.5%) and about three-fourth of non-state agricultural university (non-SAU) teachers (74.5%) possessed high work-family commitment followed by moderate levels (45.5 and 25.5%) respectively. Significant interactionary effects of gender and cadre were observed indicating that males with professor and above cadre revealed higher work-family commitment than females while no such trend was observed among assistant and associate professors. Majority of the SAU (90.9%) and non-SAU (87.3%) teachers expressed high level of job satisfaction. There was significant effect of gender; the male teachers (82.53) had higher job satisfaction compared to the females (77.66). The inter-actionary effects of gender and university were also significant indicating that the difference between gender was only among non-SAUs while among SAUs no significant difference between gender was observed on job satisfaction. Positive and significant correlation was observed between job satisfaction and work-family commitment of SAU teachers only indicating that more was the satisfaction derived from job higher was the work-family commitment and vice versa.