Parenting as a Moderating Factor for Research Productivity and Work-Life Balance: Evidence from Philippine Women Academics
Ethelbert P. Dapiton
,
Dolores T. Quiambao
,
Ranie B. Canlas
Higher education institutions (HEIs) demand from their faculty excellent teaching output and substantial number of quality productive scholarship, hen.
- Pub. date: October 15, 2020
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Higher education institutions (HEIs) demand from their faculty excellent teaching output and substantial number of quality productive scholarship, hence, balancing work and family demands becomes a central challenge among academics to maintain a healthy work-life balance. The decision to have children and family shapes the career trajectories of academics as well as their research productivity in particular. Striking a balance between attending to family matters and becoming scholarly productive is a tall order among Filipino women academics, having a culture that is just beginning to adopt to the more egalitarian aspect of attending to family matters. The empirical result of this study shows that indeed, parenting is a moderating factor between work-life balance and research productivity among Filipino women academics. Female faculty members in particular are susceptible to a balancing act between family commitments most especially in producing quality researches. Family life still pervades within the spectrum of research productivity on one side and work-life balance on the other end among women academics.
Keywords: Parenting, work-life balance, research productivity, women academicians.
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