*Professor, Dept. of Management Studies, Sathyabama University, Chennai, (Tamil Nadu)
**Professor, Department of Management Studies, St. Joseph’s College of Engineering, Chennai (Tamil Nadu)
Online published on 11 December, 2013.
Work and family are the two central domains forming the back bone of an individual's life. They are work domain (employment) and non-work domain (family). These two inevitable institutions namely work and family have historically coexisted, simultaneously as discrete spheres in one's life. There has been an accelerated influx of women into paid employment roles in the recent past. The article deals with the select antecedents and its influence on the strain dimension of role conflict is analyzed in the study. A sample size of 598 was taken for the study and result has been obtained using statistical analysis.