Published Paper Details:

As the times progress, the need for women's workforce to generate the economy is as important as the needs of the male workforce. Women are now able to take up major jobs in an organization and are able to make decisions. However, working women are often associated with the dilemma of dividing their duties in the office and managing the household. The involvement of women in a career has both positive and negative effects on women themselves, their families and even their organizations. Teaching is a challenging job considering its broad duties and heavy responsibilities. The burden of many tasks has caused complexity, dissatisfaction and emotional fatigue to the teachers. The data was collected through the distribution of investigative question forms specifically designed to a total of 418 respondents of female teachers with children of 0 to 12 years old in the states of Kedah and Selangor. Next, the use of Structural Equation Modeling Analysis (SEM) to achieve the objectives of the study. Studies show that employment factors are the biggest contributor to the wellbeing of female teachers. This is followed by economic factors affecting the wellbeing of female teachers. While the social factors have only a slight affect to the wellbeing of female teachers. It can be formulated that the wellbeing of female teachers in balancing their child's workload and care is affected by occupational, economic and social factors. The balance of work time and child care is important so that working married women will continue to be productive in contributing in the labor market.