Received: October 28, 2021 Accepted: November 02, 2021 Published: November 02, 2021
This study assesses the gender differences in work-family conflict and the relationship between work-family conflict and work performance among Indian employees, working from home during lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A sample of one hundred male and female employees was collected via a convenient and snowball sampling method. The participants provided information on their work-family conflict and work performance using the following scales: Work-family Conflict Scale and Individual Work Performance Questionnaire. It was found that there is a negative relationship between work-family conflict and work performance. It was also found that significant gender differences exist in work-family conflict. Indian female employees observed higher work-family conflict than male employees. Therefore, it was found that within remote workers in India during the pandemic, females experienced higher work-family conflict than males. However, there was not enough evidence to support that females experienced lower work performance than males as only two of the three subscales reported a significant difference between the two groups. The analysis signified a gender difference on the subscales of Task Performance and Contextual Performance. No statistically significant gender differences were found on the subscale of Counter- productive Performance.
Keywords: Work-family conflict, Task performance, Contextual performance, Counterproductive performance, Remote work, Gender differences.