Demographic Factors - Discriminators of Role Conflict Segments:An Emprical Study among Women Employees in Information Technology Sector in Chennai

The previous researches have explored the role of work family conflict in the lives of working women. Though impact of demographic factors on work family conflict has been analyzed in the earlier studies, little attempt has been made in identifying the demographics which act as discriminators. This study attempted to examine the selected demographic variables namely number of children, working hours, educational background and the number of dependents in the family as factors discriminating the different conflict segments. A sample of 598 women IT employees were selected to test the influencing nature of the variables taken for the study. Results indicated that all factors discriminate significantly between the segments of respondents based on role conflict. However, the level and the segments for which it discriminates are not same among the factors.