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Work-family conflict among hotel housekeepers in the Balearic Islands (Spain)

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  • Xenia Chela-Alvarez
  • M Esther Garcia-Buades
  • Victoria A Ferrer-Perez
  • Oana Bulilete
  • Joan Llobera

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The massive incorporation of women to the labour market has increased academic and applied interest on work-life issues throughout the years. This article aims to describe the domestic burden and difficulties in work-life balance (WLB) and to understand the intersection of work and family spheres among hotel housekeepers (HHs). A cross-sectional study was conducted through Primary Health Care in the Balearic Islands (Spain); 1,043 HHs were enrolled. 56.7% reported difficulties in WLB. Risk factors for perceiving difficulties in WLB were: living with someone else (regardless of the number of co-habitants), having difficulties making ends meet, being the main person in charge of domestic tasks, having a dependant, having an external locus of control, presenting higher levels of stress at work, working more hours a week and being younger. Protective factors from experiencing work-family conflict (WFC) were job and wage satisfaction. WFC is strongly influenced by individual, economic, labour and domestic factors: these relationships show that labour and domestic spheres are non-separate worlds.

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  • Xenia Chela-Alvarez & M Esther Garcia-Buades & Victoria A Ferrer-Perez & Oana Bulilete & Joan Llobera, 2023. "Work-family conflict among hotel housekeepers in the Balearic Islands (Spain)," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 18(3), pages 1-17, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0269074
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0269074
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