Journal of Families and Better Life (가정과삶의질연구)

Korean Home Management Association (가정과삶의질학회)
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Work-Family Balance of Employed Married Women: Focusing on Family Friendly Work Policies of Workplace

직장 유형에 따른 취업주부의 일-가족 균형 지각: 가족친화제도를 중심으로

  • Chin, Mee-Jung (Dept. of Child Development & Family Studies/Research Institute of Human Ecology, Seoul National Univ.) ;
  • Sung, Mi-Ai (Dept. of Home Economics, Korea National Open Univ.)
  • 진미정 (서울대학교 아동가족학과/생활과학연구소) ;
  • 성미애 (한국방송통신대학교 가정학과)
  • Received : 2012.04.03
  • Accepted : 2012.07.16
  • Published : 2012.08.31
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Abstract

This study attempts to examine the effect of family friendly work policies on the work-family balance of employed married women with young children. While previous research has investigated the effects of family friendly work policies, the effects has often been confounded with the effects of other covariates such as worker's and workplace's characteristics. In this study, we try to distinguish the effects of the family friendly work policies from those of other covariates. We draw a sample of 131 employed married women with children under age 12 from the $2^{nd}$ National Korean Family Survey. We compare the level of work-famiy balance of the women by the type of workplace: public sector, large enterprise, medium enterprise, and small enterprise. The results of this study show that some of the differences in the work-family balance of the women working in the different type of workplace can be attributed to socio-demographic background of the women and the work characteristics of workplace. There is, however, an effect of family friendly policies on the work-family balance between those who work in public sector and in medium enterprise after controlling the effects of the covariates.

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