Work-family balance and the subjective well-being of rural women in Sichuan, China

Abstract

BackgroundDue to the great burden of family and the conflicts among family, society and career roles resulting from migrant working, rural women suffer more conflicts between work and family and need more social attention. Previous studies of the conflicts between family and work mainly focus on the group of career women, and there is a lack of the research on the conflicts between work and family of rural women, which needs to be systematically and further studied.MethodsThis study used a sample survey of 380 rural women in rural areas of Sichuan Province to measure rural women’s cognition of work-family, coordination and handling of conflicts, post-conflict choices, and subjective well-being; the study constructs an ordered multi-class logistic regression model to explore the impact of work-family conflict on the subjective well-being of rural women in rural regions.ResultsThe study result shows that: (1) The level of subjective well-being of rural women is generally high, and 70% of women feel satisfied or very satisfied. (2) The factor which impacts the subjective well-being among rural women most is work-interfering-with-family conflict, followed by work-family balance and confidence in conflict coordination.ConclusionThis study can enhance our understanding of rural women in rural areas, and provide a reference for formulating policies to improve people’s life satisfaction.

Intimate partner violence against adolescent girls and young women and its association with miscarriages, stillbirths and induced abortions in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from demographic and health surveys

“…However, stratification of the association between the two phenomena by country showed that significant associations between IPV and pregnancy termination among AGYW existed in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote D'lvoire, Gambia and Mali (West Africa); Comoros, Rwanda and Uganda (East Africa); Chad, Congo DR and Gabon (Central Africa); and Malawi and Zambia (Southern Africa). Similar findings have been observed in other specific countries within the sub-region such as Cameroon ( Alio et al, 2011 ), Ethiopia ( Tiruye et al, 2020 ), Ghana ( Tenkorang, 2019 ), Nigeria ( Bola, 2016 ) and Tanzania ( Stöckl et al, 2012 ) in confirmation of the significant association between IPV and pregnancy termination in SSA. Beyond SSA, other studies have also found a positive association between IPV and pregnancy termination ( Afiaz, Biswas, Shamma, & Ananna, 2020 ; Devries et al, 2010 ; Khan, Dongarwar, Aliyu, & Salihu, 2019 ; Rahman, 2015 ).…”

“…Considering the role IPV plays in fetal death, understanding the association between IPV and pregnancy termination, particularly in SSA where pregnancy termination and IPV are very high is essential. However, in SSA, only country-specific studies have been carried out in Cameroon ( Alio et al, 2011 ), Ethiopia ( Tiruye, Chojenta, Harris, Holliday, & Loxton, 2020 ), Ghana ( Tenkorang, 2019 ), Nigeria ( Bola, 2016 ) and Tanzania ( Stöckl, Filippi, Watts, & Mbwambo, 2012 ) on the association between IPV and pregnancy termination. None of these studies specifically focused on AGYW, despite previous studies recording high prevalence of pregnancy termination among this cohort of women ( Leppälahti et al, 2012 ; Onukwugha et al, 2020 ; Sánchez-Páez & Ortega, 2019 ).…”

Predictors of Women’s awareness of common non-communicable diseases screening during preconception period in Manna District, Southwest Ethiopia: implication for wellness check-up

“…The difference might also be due to larger gaps in the study period between current and previous studies. The current study was also significantly higher than studies conducted in developing countries like Nigeria (63.5%) [ 48 ], Ghana (34.5%) [ 49 ], Kenya (25.3%) [ 50 ], Sudan (11%) [ 51 ], and West Shoa zone, Ethiopia (22.1%) [ 52 ]. This might be due to the fact that despite the early recommendation of WHO, CDC, and FIGO, preconception care is a new concept in many countries.…”

Impact of knowledge and attitude on the utilization rate of cervical cancer screening tests among Ethiopian women: A systematic review and meta-analysis

“…Overall information regarding the prevalence of cervical cancer screening service utilization was obtained from various regions of the country. Ten of the studies involved participants from the Amhara region [35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44], eleven from the Oromia region [45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55], nine from the SNNPR [56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64], four from Tigrai [65][66][67][68], eight from Addis Ababa [69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76], one study involving participants from the Amhara, SNNPR and Afar regions [77], and another study involving participants countrywide [25]. Regarding sampling, all of the studies used the probability sampling technique ( Table 1).…”