An Exploratory Study on the Work Family Balance of Working Women during Covid-19 Pandemic

The Corona Virus pandemic is the greatest challenge that each and everyone in the universe faced health crisis of the current time in India as well. The WHO, which has officially declared the outbreak a pandemic, called on "all countries to continue efforts that have been effective in limiting the number of cases and slowing the spread of the virus". The work culture across the world has been changed during the pandemic and people faced many problems especially working professionals. Among them, working women faced so much discomforts and troubles during covid-19 and have more possibility of being disturbed in physical and psychological problems. Women also faced high risks of job and income loss, and faced increased risks of violence, exploitation, abuse or harassment during time of crisis and quarantine. There is a possibility that working women faced mental stress and lack of work-life balance, increasing household chores. The purpose of this study has taken to inter-relate and evaluate some of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs - 3 and 5) among the working professionals and considered the convenient sampling method for the primary data collection. Exploratory Data Analysis and Chi-square method are used to assess the cause for the working women either for passion or family circumstances and to investigate the situation of increase in household works and work life balance especially during COVID-19 pandemic environment.