1Bharathiar University, Coimbatore-Tamilnadu
2GIBS, Bangalore
3Marrow Pvt Ltd
The economic pressure, education along with changing trends in the value system and lifestyle has encouraged more number of women to join the corporate environment. Women is India has always been the one in the family to be the sole care taker since ages. And work-life balance of wowmen emplyess has always been the research focus for many researchers, Hence the researcher deliberates work-family balance with respect to family, domestic help and colleagues among working married and unmarried women in Bangalore which is india’s largest IT hub. Motivation of selection of this topic is how social support assist the women employees to meet out demands of work as well as family life in Information technology sector. The scope of the study is limited to women employees with regard to Information technology sector alone. Main theme of preparation of this dissertation is to explore the lives of working married and unmarried women who balance work and family responsibilities and identify impact on it. The study adopts correlation analysis to identify the impact of social support system in balancing work and family responsibilities.The study considers three variables which include family, domestic help and colleague. It is observed from the study that family, domestic help and colleague support have an impact on married women employees to achieve work and family life balance. Whereas family and domestic help doesn ’t impact on unmarried women employees but colleague support does impact to achieve work family balance. As a result Changes in family automatically affects the social support system which inturn affects the work andfamily balance.
Social supports system, Work-family balance, Colleague support