This study inquires into the influence of the married women paid-worker’s work-family reconciliation for her job satisfaction, with its final aims at groping for the political improvement for her work-family reconciliation that can improve her job s...
This study inquires into the influence of the married women paid-worker’s work-family reconciliation for her job satisfaction, with its final aims at groping for the political improvement for her work-family reconciliation that can improve her job satisfaction based on this. This study analyzed 888 married women paid-workers to the study objective of the First data in the Korean Longitudinal Survey of Women & Families to achieve this purpose, with the following conclusion.
First, the married women paid-worker’s work-family reconciliation level was showed relatively low, which was negatively judged. Specially, the complications produced due to the influence of work on the home life was showed critical, where the married women worker’s household work time was shown 4 times more than her husband’s to have more household and childcare burden, and to be hard to carry out her work and home life. Specially, the implementation rate of family-friendly practices in the work was shown generally low, which is considered to have the political access.
Second, the married women paid-worker’s job satisfaction according to her work-family reconciliation level was low in case of personal factor with both the influence of work on the home life and of home life on the work more critical, and with the traditional value of gender role. In case of family factor, her job satisfaction level was higher with her higher satisfaction level of her husband’s sharing in the household duties, and with her husband’s higher supportiveness to her work. Also, in the workplace factor, her job satisfaction level was higher with her higher monthly salary, with the shorter average weekly working hours, with the regular employment than irregular employment, with more critical sexual discrimination in the work, with the more family-friendly practices executed in the work.
Third, the married women worker’s job satisfaction level according to whether the family-friendly practices was executed or not in the work was higher for the worker with all the maternity protection system, child rearing support, flexible working system offered by the work than for the worker without them, and with more family-friendly practices offered.
Based on the study result abovementioned, the political plan for work and family life to improve the married women worker’s job satisfaction can be presented as following. First, the counseling program and service will be necessary for the married women worker’s to relieve their work-family reconciliation complications. Also, the gender role value education program for the married women worker’s husband will be necessary. And, the legal enforcement for the married women worker’s job to increase the family-friendly practices with the financial support of government for the small disposable workplace will be necessary, and with the institutional arrangement enforced for her husband’s household and child care participation such as the paid maternity leave and the eliminated female-side directional childcare leaves to reduce the married women paid-worker’s work-family reconciliation complications.