Women Copreneur vs Women Employee. How is Their Work Family Conflict Dynamic ?

Abstract

Nowadays women have a lot of choices to actualize themselves in work setting. Some benefits of this situation are opportunities for women to improve their talents, enhance financial income of the family, increase women’s self esteem. However, there are some risks faced by modern family such as work family conflict (time, strain and behavior conflict), especially for women who have already got married. Turning to traditional distinctive family role which man is the head of family and woman is the housewife is a setback. Copreneurship is one of the alternative way to improve work family balance because of the autonomy of time and role. However, copreneur women have risk to work family conflict as well. The aim of this research is to understand the work family conflict dynamic among women copreneur and women employee. This is a preliminary qualitative descriptive study. The sampling technique is using purposive. The subjects are 4 women (2 copreneur and 2 employee). Implications of these findings and directions for research are discussed as follows