Global Journal of Management and Business Research, A: Administration and Management, Volume 22 Issue 5

Figure 5: Connecting the findings with the framework The environmental demand we saw from the findings that from work sector are that our respondents had to attend their 8 hours job and sometimes had to stay overtime when the workload is too much and also many of them mentioned that they are facing extra work pressure when their colleges are frequently falling ill and staying out of service for a longer period of time is also another sort of work-related environmental demand. The nonwork-related environmental demand involves the amount of time and energy that is required in managing home, taking care of their children and all those domestic chores which according to the respondents it is getting tougher to meet these demands in this pandemic due to several factors that we already discussed previously. Personal demands that the respondents mentioned are their time, energy and efforts they are putting everyday both in their workplace and home and here there is an imbalance and they are feeling stressed because they are overworking and getting very limited time for themselves which is adding to their stress. Personality or how they are dealing with these changes and their attitude and coping mechanism are the personal resources and as the respondents said by keeping calm, focusing on what can be done and trying to stay positive and developing routines are helped them even though it is tough for them to do all these. Environmental resources that the respondents mentioned are work related autonomy, time autonomy, flexible work schedule telecommunicating and transportation most of which is absent and when they were asked for recommendations for the betterment of their situation in case of the response then they responded with these. Non work-related factors that also contributes to levels of conflict includes number and age of dependents at home, children, the presence or absence of a house help, both of them and their spouses working and to the respondents mentioned they really lacked the family support. The extra supporting and helps that they used to get earlier this pandemic is not there and it is creating more problems and conflicts. Women are facing Increased biased in performance appraisal due to the pandemic as they are affected differently by the pandemic than men. All these factors are at play and these are creating conflicts, despite that these women professionals are coping but we also got to know from the respondents that it is affecting their general wellbeing as they rarely get and time for themselves so their mental health is at its worst and it’s affecting their performance and career and life satisfaction negatively. An Exploratory study on the Challenges Confronted by the Female Corporate Professionals Working in Banks to Maintain Balance in Work-Life during Pandemic 73 Global Journal of Management and Business Research Volume XXII Issue V Version I Year 2022 ( ) A © 2022 Global Journals