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. 2023 Mar 29;18(3):e0269074.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0269074. eCollection 2023.

Work-family conflict among hotel housekeepers in the Balearic Islands (Spain)

Xenia Chela-Alvarez  1   2   3 , M Esther Garcia-Buades  4 , Victoria A Ferrer-Perez  4 , Oana Bulilete  1   2   3 , Joan Llobera  1   2   3
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Work-family conflict among hotel housekeepers in the Balearic Islands (Spain)

Xenia Chela-Alvarez et al. PLoS One. .

Abstract

The massive incorporation of women to the labour market has increased academic and applied interest on work-life issues throughout the years. This article aims to describe the domestic burden and difficulties in work-life balance (WLB) and to understand the intersection of work and family spheres among hotel housekeepers (HHs). A cross-sectional study was conducted through Primary Health Care in the Balearic Islands (Spain); 1,043 HHs were enrolled. 56.7% reported difficulties in WLB. Risk factors for perceiving difficulties in WLB were: living with someone else (regardless of the number of co-habitants), having difficulties making ends meet, being the main person in charge of domestic tasks, having a dependant, having an external locus of control, presenting higher levels of stress at work, working more hours a week and being younger. Protective factors from experiencing work-family conflict (WFC) were job and wage satisfaction. WFC is strongly influenced by individual, economic, labour and domestic factors: these relationships show that labour and domestic spheres are non-separate worlds.

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The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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