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1Anthropology and Human Genetics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India.
Abstract:
The present study, conducted among 190 urban middle-class women of Calcutta city, examines the differences between a group of working mothers and a socioeconomically comparable group of non-working mothers with respect to their time use pattern. The underlying hypotheses are: (a) working mothers have less time for certain household responsibilities compared to non-working mothers; and (b) combined job and family responsibilities generate role conflicts among the working mothers, due to lack of support in the family and/or outside it. Results suggest that though the working mothers had contributed significantly less time in parental, domestic, conjugal and individual activities compared to their non-working counterparts, they hardly faced role conflicts as corroborated from their lower anxiety scores.
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