A Study on Work Life Balance of advocates in Pune.

Generally law is a profession with lot of challenges especially dealing with clients and their issues such as, criminal cases, civil cases, etc. It is even more challenging and competitive profession for women to combat with men lawyers. In this profession the lawyers have to spend more time on their cases to get success. Therefore they hardly get time to spend for their family. Practicing law is very difficult to both men and women advocates to manage family and work. So the present study focussed to study the influence of demographic variables in their work life balance, to understand their professional work load challenges and analyse their work life balance in all dimensions.. The study was conducted among advocates practicing in the jurisdiction of Pune city. A sample of 144 advocates those who are in practice at the time of study were taken into consideration. “Work Life Balance Scale” developed by Udai Pareek and Surabhi Purohit (2010) was used to collect the data. The scale contains 36 items with six dimensions, and each dimension contains six questions. The analyses were performed in SPSS and the results were presented in the form of tables with proper interpretations.