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LEVELLING HARD PITCH OF WORKFAMILY CONFLICT DURING PANDEMIC LIVED EXPERIENCE OF FEMALE NURSES

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2022(VII-I).17      10.31703/gsr.2022(VII-I).17      Published : Mar 2022

Levelling Hard Pitch of Work-Family Conflict During Pandemic: Lived Experience of Female Nurses

Abstract

    This paper aims to explore the notion of work-family conflict (WFC) among female nurses during the pandemic of COVID as they were standing at the front line to combat this havoc. Health care is a challenging field, and medical professionals, especially female nurses, experience this phenomenon on a daily basis. A reasonable amount of scholarship is available on this topic. How-ever, research focusing on contextualizing work-family conflict during COVID-19 is a missed clue between practice and research. Considering this lacuna, this research paper has exclusively focused on the lived experience of married (with kids) female nurses and the strategies they employed to survive in the religion-culturally defined patriarchal environment of Pakistan. In line,this paper contributes to the intellectual discourse with a context-specific insider's view of female nurses.Research implications and future research direction will also be given in this paper.

    Nurses, Pandemic, Work-family Conflict, Survival Strategies, Personal Attributes, Contextualizing, Pakistan

    (1) Noreen Saher
    Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan
    (2) Tayyaba Khalid
    Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan
    (3) Hadiba Kanwal
    Lecturer, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, GIFT University, Gujranwala, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA

    APA : Saher, N., Khalid, T., & Kanwal, H. (2022). Levelling Hard Pitch of Work-Family Conflict During Pandemic: Lived Experience of Female Nurses. Global Sociological Review, VII(I), 178-186. https://doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2022(VII-I).17

CHICAGO

    CHICAGO : Saher, Noreen, Tayyaba Khalid, and Hadiba Kanwal. 2022. "Levelling Hard Pitch of Work-Family Conflict During Pandemic: Lived Experience of Female Nurses." Global Sociological Review, VII (I): 178-186 doi: 10.31703/gsr.2022(VII-I).17

HARVARD

    HARVARD : SAHER, N., KHALID, T. & KANWAL, H. 2022. Levelling Hard Pitch of Work-Family Conflict During Pandemic: Lived Experience of Female Nurses. Global Sociological Review, VII, 178-186.

MHRA

    MHRA : Saher, Noreen, Tayyaba Khalid, and Hadiba Kanwal. 2022. "Levelling Hard Pitch of Work-Family Conflict During Pandemic: Lived Experience of Female Nurses." Global Sociological Review, VII: 178-186

MLA

    MLA : Saher, Noreen, Tayyaba Khalid, and Hadiba Kanwal. "Levelling Hard Pitch of Work-Family Conflict During Pandemic: Lived Experience of Female Nurses." Global Sociological Review, VII.I (2022): 178-186 Print.

OXFORD

    OXFORD : Saher, Noreen, Khalid, Tayyaba, and Kanwal, Hadiba (2022), "Levelling Hard Pitch of Work-Family Conflict During Pandemic: Lived Experience of Female Nurses", Global Sociological Review, VII (I), 178-186

TURABIAN

    TURABIAN : Saher, Noreen, Tayyaba Khalid, and Hadiba Kanwal. "Levelling Hard Pitch of Work-Family Conflict During Pandemic: Lived Experience of Female Nurses." Global Sociological Review VII, no. I (2022): 178-186. https://doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2022(VII-I).17