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Inter Role Conflict and its Impact on African Women Working in Restaurants in Asmara (Eritrea)
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All over the world, recent years in the past have brought a great change in the life of women, influencing their attitudes, values, inspirations and ways of thinking and behaving for an effective participation in all walks of life. Many low and middle class of urban Women are coming out of the four walls of their homes in search of economic gain as well as fulfillment of their personal hopes and desires. Today, by and large, to their old age role of a wife and a mother, a new role has been added, i.e., the modern role of wage earner or a bread-winner.
This paper presents how the working women facing the role conflict in the family and the work.
Objectives of the study:
1. To know whether work-life balance/imbalance have an impact. 2. To analyze whether the work-life affects their effectiveness/performance in the family life, caring the children etc.
3. To evaluate whether family expectations/dependency have an impact on the working women.
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