A STUDY ON WORK LIFE BALANCE OF WOMEN EMPLOYEES IN IT SECTOR STUDY ON WORK LIFE BALANCE OF WOMEN EMPLOYEES IN IT SECTOR.”

: Work life balance of women employees plays the major role because they have to manage their personal life for their good quality of life. The employee’s satisfaction is based on the employee to be happy and deliver the level best. Even in the Worst scenario the employee is very loyal to their organization because of the employee Satisfaction. The quality of life is based on the professional life of each and every women employee who are coming forward to support to their family. The problem of the women employee’s face is health condition, Pregnancy discrimination, Sexual harassment, no equal pay, etc. This paper says that how the women employees are balanced and Satisfied in IT sector and the factors that affect the work life balance of women employees are working hours, Job satisfaction, working condition, etc. and find out the women employee job satisfaction were analyzed by using statistical method that is Chi-square and Correlation test .


Introduction
In the current world the gender has no difference between them so both have the equal rights and knowledge. Women in the early century they won't even come out but after that mostly women participated in IT sector and show that equal strength and potential, they can do it by them self with out any help. So, some of the women where started their own business and running by there own and manage the company with effective knowledge. Here women employees who are all working in the different places and different work they do. But as an women entrepreneur there is no difficulty but want to face different type of problem to withstand in the market so the women employees are not like that because they no need to face problem but they want to keep the target per day and achieve that and face problem in their personal life and professional life. But it has become a tough challenge for women as they have to perform a lot of duties in home and even in the textile industries as well. As a working woman mostly, they have to get married at the particular time and that is the additional responsibilities and when they become mothers, they have to manage the primary care of the children. So, the extended family have the greater pressure to continue on career coping up with competing demands of their multiple role. So, the process of making them pressure at work and after completing it that affects in their personal life. In the different sector mostly, the women health is affected because of standing for the whole day is not at all good for the human health. Health problems are likely lead to lower sales and performance of the working women. This paper focuses on the tough life of women employees were working in different sector.

Literature Review
J. Sudha (2014) research has identified the various aspects such as career advancement, Work stress, career aspiration, Work Family conflict and Family work conflict, child care in context with work life balance(WLB) and its practices and has revealed the overview of the various challenges and issues faced by Women employees to achieve WLB. K. Thrivenikumari & Dr. V. Rama Devi (2013) Work life balance as one of the most challenging issues being faced by the women employees in 21 st century because of the type of roles they play at home and the spill over of personal life over professional life. The quality of life is being used by the organization as a strategic tool that has to attract and then retain the employees and give more importance to maintain their work life balance with equal level of performance and commitment at work(Shalini and

Work Life Balance
The term work life balance was coined in1986. Work life balance can be defined ad achievement and enjoyment of all four life quadrants-Work, Family, Friends and self. Work life balance is to balance between the personal and professional life.

Personal life
Professional life If the personal life is balanced then the professional life also balanced. Once the women employees are satisfied with their needs then they can manage their work life balance easily.

Factors Affecting Employee Satisfaction
Working Condition They will be providing service for 7 days a week, 10 hours a day. The textile industries must provide the basic need of the women employees like drinking water, seating arrangements, healthy food facility only for the hostelers women employees who are coming from different places, clean and neat restroom and the working condition should be healthy and safety for the women employees.

Women Employee Benefits and Compensation
They provide the benefits if they achieve the target then they will provide the extra pay by the organization to increase the productivity. This motivates the employees to participate in all things to increase the performance of the individuals and also get the bonus, incentives etc

Work Load and Stress Level
Work load in IT sector is always high and there is a deadline for every project or document submission so that are impossible to reach some times so that occurs the job satisfaction to erode for even the most involved employees and it bring the higher job satisfaction to the work place. There are many ways that arises the stress level of employees that are pressure from top management, other employee conflict, etc.. at the work place.

Research Methodology
This research is based on the analytic in nature. The primary data were collected through the structured questionnaire. The study is based on the Work life balance and job satisfaction at different sector. The women employee satisfaction and retention of the respondents is recorded on 3 point Likert scale with Agree (3), Neutral (2), Disagree (1).

Description of the Tool Used
The questionnaire had 30 items. they are demographic variables are collected in detail no of respondents namely age group, number of children, Professional of spouse.

Data Analysis and Interpretation
The data are analyzed by using the statistical tool. I have used Simple percentage Analysis and chi-square test and Correlation test. Which is used to find out the significant relationship between the dependent variables and independent variables and has its cross tabulation is mentioned below.  (2-tailed) .000 N 60 60 Job satisfaction Pearson Correlation .645** 1 Sig. (2-tailed) .000 N 60 60 Thus, the result is concluded that ρ is greater than 0. Hence there is positive relationship exist among the Stress and Job satisfaction.

Marital Status No of Responds
2) Correlation between Age and working hours H0: ρ=0,There is no relationship between Age and working hours H1: ρ≠0, there is relationship between Age and working hours

Findings of the Study
1) The Majority (58%) of the respondents are married women employees. 2) The Majority (41%) of the respondents are from the Age of Below 30.
3) The Majority (63%) of the respondents are agreed to their working hours are flexible. 4) The Majority (75%) of the respondents are agree that they are satisfied with their job. 5) The Majority (36%) of the respondents are agree that they are stressed. 6) The Majority (43%) of the respondents are neutral women employees have family problems.

Chi-Square Result
There is a Significant relationship between Age and Job Satisfaction. There is a Significant relationship between Family problem and marital status.

Correlation Result
There is a positive relationship among Stress and Job Satisfaction There is a positive relationship among Age and Working hours.

Conclusion
The work life balance of women employees plays a vital role in IT sectors. So, mostly in IT sector the women employee faces more difficulties in managing their personal life and professional life.
The work life balance is influenced by different factors are demographic variables, individual variables. Thus, the women employee has to balance the both work and personal life, only the women employee should be satisfied with her job and get developed by themselves may lead to the good work life balance in current situation. In this paper it show that all women are balanced and they are satisfied with their jobs. Thus it is concluded that thewomen employees in the IT sector have good WLB.