Time Management between Family and Career among Women Lecturer at Polytechnic

Abstract

The involvement of women's career has shown that women nowadays are moving steps towards a different change than women in earlier times. Looking at the current progress and the rising cost of living in nowadays, many of the women involved with the world of work. The involvement of marriage women in the workforce has invite various of conflicts and challenges that have been subjected. Because of this, it is desirable for the authors to conduct a more detailed about the challenges faced by career women in managing their time between their family and career. The objectives were to identify the challenges faced by women lecturers in the field of technical and vocational education in managing the household, to review the criteria required by the women on the go to improve performance in career and family management and to identify the best way or approach in balancing responsibilities between career and family life for women lecturer at polytechnic. A quantitative approach in the form of a correlational study was adopted for this research. 76 questionnaires were distributed to the respondents Politeknik Merlimau, Melaka. The results for all criteria of the organization, job satisfaction, attitudes and opportunities show positive results. This means that overall respondents agreed with all of these criteria can improve performance in a career. In conclusion, based on the findings clearly show that women lecture had no problems in balancing their roles in a career and a family.