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标题：The Challenges and Realities of Work-Family Balance among Nigerian Female Doctors and Nurses
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作者：Toyin Ajibade Adisa ; Chima Mordi ; Tonbara Mordi 等
期刊名称：Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti Bulletin : Economic Sciences Series
印刷版ISSN：2284-8576
电子版ISSN：2247-8582
出版年度：2014
卷号：3
页码：23-37
出版社：Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti
摘要：This paper investigates the challenges and the realities of work-family balance among Nigerian female doctors and nurses in their hysteric efforts to balance their work and family obligations. The paper explores sundry issues that arise in the process of juggling their work and family commitments, and proffer recommendations based on these issues. In doing so, semi-structured qualitative interviews were carried out among 131 female medical workers (60 female doctors and 71 female nurses') respectively. The entire data used for this empirical study were collected across the six-geopolitical zones of Nigeria using a typical-all-round qualitative method. The findings thus reveal a number of workplace and domestic problems that threaten female doctors and nurses in their quests for work-family balance. Consequently making work-family strife more pronounced among them. It is, therefore, hoped that the issue of work-family balance examined in this study will broaden the understanding, from a gender perspective, in a particular and understudied context of Nigeria.
关键词：work-family balance; doctors; Nigerian health sector