| Summary: | Challenge face by dual-career lecturer women is the demands in some
aspects of their lives. In the year of 2000, three of five women worked and at 25
to 44-year-old there were 75% working women, 60% of them were working and
having children under 12-year-old, and women who worked outside in their life
were 90% (Betz, 2005). A negative role experience in some domains will become
a stressor because of its incompatibility and give some effects on their physical,
psychological, and interpersonal relationship. Those conditions will need a worklife
balance strategy to harmonious their work and non-work domains. The aim of
this research is to understand the strategy used by the dual-career lecturer
women for balancing their work-life domain.
This study used a qualitative method and case study as a research design.
Respondents of this research are three lecturer women in the Department of
Architecture and characterized as a marriage woman, having children, and
having a high above average of job performance score.
The results of this study showed there are eight strategies used by
respondents to attempt work-life balance. They are alternating, outsorcing,
bundling, techflexing, simplifying, hold on religious values, transfer of knowledge,
and self-adjusting in society. The last three are the findings of this study. There
are also some factors influence the work-life balance strategy, they are gratitude,
trust, organizational and social support, and hardiness. Comfort value, religious
value, and achievement value also have a role as driving factors to work-life
balance strategy. The meaning of work was also found in this study, such as
knowledge improvement, religious proselytizing, and self-improvisation, which
has a role to enhance the work-life balance strategy
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