Balance between family reconciliation and job satisfaction of women with paid work during the 2020 health crisis in the city of La Paz

Abstract

Within the Bolivian context, it is known that the social and labor conditions for women and men are very different and the fact to fulfill two functions: paid and unpaid work, was already at a disadvantage. And became much more complicated with the arrival of Covid19. Given this situation, the interest arises to determine if there is a balance between the reconciliation of family life and women’s job satisfaction with paid work during the health crisis of 2020 specifically in the city of La Paz. For this, the Inventory of Relationships between Family and Work and the Job Satisfaction Scale was applied to  volunteers who, during quarantine, were part of an organization and received benefits according to the law. The sample consisted of 177 workers, of which 126 are women and 51 are men with an age dispersion between 18 and 60 years. Where the results showed that the work-family conciliation is higher for women, while job satisfaction is higher for men; at the same time, the variables showed a dependency correlation between them, since increasing one also increases the other. It was concluded that there was no balance between family reconciliation and job satisfaction in Bolivian women during the 2020 health crisis and that  due to this, the gender gap widened and aggravated all the existing inequalities in society.