Gender Stereotyping and Work Life Balance: A Study of Dual Career Couples

The most common family type in today's era is a family in which both the partners are working professionally. This sort of couple is known as dual career couples. This study focuses on the presence of Gender Stereotyping among DCC which affects their Work Life Balance & Marital relationships, one of the major causes of work life imbalance and marital dissatisfaction is due to the presence of gender stereotyping among DCC However, when DCC share the roles and responsibilities of home with gender neutral perspective they experience benefits of being a DCC along with the experience ofwork life balance and marital satisfaction. Purpose ofthe paper is to study and understand the link between the presence of Gender Stereotyping and work life imbalance. In this paper researchers have tried to study about social role strain, gender role strain and its interdependence on work life balance and marital satisfaction among dual career couples in today's era. The degendered roles and responsibilities among DCC will remove marital dissatisfaction and work life imbalance. This study is an analytical study in which correlation is used for analysing 120 DCC responses from various service sectors from Delhi-NCR. Two different questionnaires were used for this study; one was related to household work division and another was based on gender role beliefs. The entire data were tested and examined with the help of various tools and methods. It was observed in this study that Gender Stereotyping exists among dual career couples specifically in performing household tasks. It was inferred from the study that when the husbands were actively participating in all the household work, their work life balance and batter married life goes up and is marked as significant r is equal to 0.18, and P is equal to 0.047. It was found that in present times most of the husbands believe in traditional gender stereotyped roles of wives. Husbands among DCC who reported higher work life balance and marital satisfaction had more participation in housework.