Work, family and women’s well-being in Malaysia

• Main Authors: Noor, Noraini M., Mohd Mahudin, Nor Diana
• Other Authors: Connerly, Mary L.
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English; English
• Published: Springer Netherlands 2016
• Subjects: HQ503 The family. Marriage. Home
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/56981/2/56981_Work%2C%20Family%20and%20Women%E2%80%99s_SCOPUS.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/56981/13/56981_Work%2C%20family%20and%20women%E2%80%99s%20well-being%20in%20Malaysia.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/56981/; https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-94-017-9897-6_40

In this chapter we examine work, family and women’s well-being in Malaysia. We begin by briefly positioning education as a prerequisite to women’s labor force participation and highlighting this development over the last few decades. We then discuss studies in the work-family literature from two fro...