The document discusses work-life balance for career women. It notes that while traditionally women's roles were confined to the home, today women have made strides in all fields of work. It defines work-life balance as the daily achievement and enjoyment in all spheres of life, including work, family, friends, health and spirit. It discusses the challenges modern women face in balancing responsibilities at work and home, and recommends employers provide flexibility and support through policies around childcare, leave, and workload management to help women achieve a better balance.

1. Career Women and Work Life Balance -By Sayanti Ghosh [email_address]

2. Women – Then Traditionally the role of women used to be of cooking, cleaning , raising children etc. They were looked upon as caregiver or as homekeeper and were denied access outside home.

3. Women Now Today’s women have made their mark in every field. Be it literature, arts, politics, sports , Corporate or any other sphere women are ready to take up challenges.

5. Work Work is the activity or effort that we put to produce or accomplish something. We work to put food on our table and roofs on our heads. We work toward the prospect of children in college and ourselves in rocking chairs. In other words: we work because we have to. People usually understand the world of work as it relates to making money. However, many reasons are often cited for wanting to work besides money which includes productivity, ambition, esteem and contribution to society.

6. Life Abraham Lincoln once said “And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.” Life is more than just our age count it is a collage of our happiness, sadness, celebrations, peacefulness to name a few. When a door of happiness is closed, another opens but we continue to look at the closed door and we do not attach importance to that which we have just opened. We always think that the grass is greener the other side but the lucky ones inevitably do not have best of the best but they seek simply the best of what they see on their journey. What I am trying to say here is “Work” which is a part of “Life” is broadly related to certain aspects like ambition, acquisitions, achievements etc which may promote stress while a part of “Life” should be taken as stress releasing agent also. Though easier said than done but we may try to find out some ways to take “Life” as a stress releasing agent rather than a bag full of agony.

7. Balance Life is really busy these days and every day there are conflicting demands on our time from work, family, and half a dozen other sources. If we imagine our life as a game in which we are juggling some five balls in the air namely work , family , health , friends and spirit and keep all these in the air then we will soon understand that “ work” is a rubber ball if we drop it; it will bounce back but the other four balls are made of glass if we drop one of these they will be irrevocably scuffed or damaged or even shattered and they will never be the same again. Balance is always the key to a healthy living.

8. Women and Work Life Balance Times are changing from traditional where the husband earned, and the wife stayed at home to the modern when the husband earns and the wife earns too. But the wife still cooks, washes and runs the house. Although women have started spreading her wings in all spheres of life but the traditional concept of the women as the homemaker has not gone away from people’s mind. So, today’s women are striving continuously for “Work Life Balance”