Work-Life Balance among Female Nurses Working in the Public Hospitals of Punjab, Pakistan

Abstract

Balancing the work-life for working women is a phenomenon. Especially, for the working women, it is very difficult to manage the work life along with family life, if there are disturbing factors on both sides. Similarly, female nurses are also face lots of problems, hurdles and difficulties during the performance of their duties. In the situation of imbalance of work-life phenomenon, there are numerous issues for the organization and family life. This study intends to investigate disturbing factors for work-life balance among women nurses who are serving in public hospitals. The main objective of the article is to explain the relationship between work life balance, workload, family and organizational support, and job performance with the arbitrating role of a family-work conflict and work-family conflict among female nurses at public hospitals. Currently, the ratio of women in the healthcare field has been enhanced due to the male and female working force. By exploitation of narrative review analysis, the article intends to highlight the key issues of family-work conflict, work-family conflict and job performance in public hospitals. It has proposed aboriginal consideration to the healthcare policymaker toward marginalized public hospitals regarding female nurses, so that reliable policies and practices for female nurses may be functioned to help them achieve work life balance and unconventional performance.