Abstract

Corporate workplaces have started implementing family-friendly policies to allay women's anxieties about finding a work-life balance. But there are difficulties faced by female employees and business owners in emerging countries with strong socio-cultural values and perspectives on that issue are however, lacking. As more women join the labour in India, tensions between the personal and professional spheres grow increasingly important. Recruitment, remuneration, and professional advancement for women in India are impacted by discrimination, economic pressures, and gender bias. Work-life balance has a variety of industries and identified elements that affect work-family conflict and facilitation, including personality qualities, proactive behaviours, positive thinking, and social support. For female employees in the corporate sector, work-life balance considers social demands, personal needs, time management, pay, teamwork, and the nature of the work. Like MBSR and MBCT, mindfulness-based therapies have the potential to enhance both mental and physical well-being. It is critical for women's empowerment and overcoming societal barriers in a variety of contexts, including India, to recognise and address the implications of work-life balance. The researcher had considered 196 women employees from banking sector to people study the stress management among women employees. It is found that Proactive personalities to reduce work-family conflict through support-seeking and role-negotiation and Promoting mindfulness-based therapies to enhance mental and physical well-being help to manage the stress in women employees.

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