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“Quality & Work Life balance: Challenges and

solutions for armed forces personnel and their

families with special reference to working women’s.”

From the dawn of civilization, until the present time As we are aware of the fact, that
women’s have been playing a pivotal role in shaping armed force personnel face various challenges that
societies and were subjected to be seen from different significantly impacts their well-being and their
lenses ever since. However, irrespective of odds and families. Challenge such as prolonged separation from
evens they have always held a significant seat and their families due to deployments, training exercises,
continue to occupy crucial roles, which is expanding or assignments in remote locations. The after effect
and evolving exponentially in a stirring stride. Roles of of which is that this separation puts a strain on
a women has been multifariously transposing officer and their family causing emotional
from homemaker to breadwinners which distress and thus, requiring them to adapt
is not only making them feel elevated but to the absence of their family members.
also outlaying different set of challenges However, other issues that get nucleated
in the forefront amongst them. from such separation turns out to be
Today, the challenges single parenting as the parent left at home
before the women is not limited to security, during deployments have to shoulder
equality, empowerment or various biases but increased responsibilities for childcare
many other that had added with passage and household management. The absence
of time particularly when she decides of a both the parent during critical
over to join the workforce for income developmental stages also affect
generation and serving alongside children’s emotional well-being
men in occupation whether and overall family dynamics.
laborious or risky. The diversity As a result of which family
of occupational role in which members happens to be at
she is presently engaging higher severity and thus,
herself is also expanding at times to confront the
from medicine, sports, underlying challenges
academia, politics, banking the spouses feel that
or armed forces. Thus, engage themselves into
with manifold avenues some occupation as a
comes various challenges, one resilience in the face of
such pressing challenges which is employment so as to enable
engulfing the present families and generations them to transcend the catastrophes
is the problem of attaining work life balance and of life. In the quest of springing out with one situation
quality of life particularly when the couples are into the women gets trapped to many unfolded challenges
hard press and stressful roles in an organization. that converge to issues pertaining to work life balance
The present article will focus upon the armed force and quality of life for their entire family members.
personnel and their families to visualize some of the Often, it is considered that the sole
challenges of quality of life & work life balance that responsibility of women is to keep congruence
arises within the family in a scenario where one of between their families and profession only then she
the couple is serving in the armed force and other can barge to think for her dignity, independence
in other sort of employment and how the few efforts and freedom to progress in her own terms. While on
could be channelized to encounter them so as to the other hand, she has to cater to her family needs
facilitate allowing women to continue working and similarly to that of male figure as she happens to be
also maintaining work life balance & quality of life. a single parent with all other family obligation which
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