Work-Family Conflict: Research on Qatari Female Teachers

This research report delves into the work-family conflict experienced by female teachers in Qatari public schools. It explores the challenges faced by teachers in balancing work and family responsibilities, focusing on issues such as work overload, supervisor support, parental demands, and family support. The study aims to answer specific research questions about the types of conflicts encountered by female teachers, the impact of job-related factors, and the influence of family-related issues. The report includes an introduction outlining the research questions, study significance, and structure. It also incorporates a literature review, research methodology, findings, and a conclusion that summarizes the study's contributions. The research employs both primary and secondary data collection methods, including interviews, to analyze the experiences of female teachers and to provide insights into the work-family conflict in the Qatari context.

Running Head: Work-family Conflict
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Research Questions
The main objective of the study is to understand the types of work family conflict experienced by
teachers based on an anticipation that they have conflict issues between their work and family.
Following are the question that has to be answered with the help of this research report –
 What sorts of conflicts that are faced by female teachers (mother or marriage) while
balancing work-family issues specifically in Qatari public schools?
 What are the impact of work overload, support of supervisor which are the job-related
issues on the work-family conflict for female teachers?
 What is the impact of family issues like parents demand and family support on the work-
family conflict for female teachers?
Research Structure
This research paper consist of five chapters are as follows-
The first chapter includes the introduction of the research topic; further introduction consists of
three parts that are significance of the study, research questions and the research structure.
The second chapter of the research contains literature review which is related to the research
area. It includes the definition of key terms, review of the past research and theoretical
framework of the study.
The third chapter focuses the research methodology of the study. In this includes the research
strategy, data collection method. For data collection method both primary and secondary data
collection method is used by conducting an interview and focus on samples of the study. This

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chapter also includes the process used to execute the data along with the ethical principles
followed by the researcher in order to conduct this research.
The fourth chapter determines the findings of the study by interview and also interpret and
compare the data with collected data to a literature review in order to find the result
appropriately.
In the last chapter, research includes the conclusion of the study with the help of findings and
summary of the study to highlight the contribution of the current study an aspect of the future
studies in the same research area.
Significance of the study
Various types of the study had been conducted which is related to the work family conflict in a
different locality, mainly in Western countries, but there was no study has conducted on Qatar
and for the female teachers. This study mainly focuses on the issues of female that has faced
while balancing their work life and their family life, especially this study concentrate on the
marriage and the other women who have faced many conflicts while doing both work and family
services. The percentage of the Qatar school is very high that it is very effective to conduct
report over there and as large amount of viewpoints can be known by this. A large amount of
female workforce in Qatar are engaged in the field of teacher only. The high percentage of the
female teachers of the Qatar are facing issues while balancing their work and personal life and
the type of challenges they are facing while doing the same has risen the need for conducting this
report in order to develop the need to analyze the female teacher's issues of work-family conflict.
Comparison of the United Kingdom and Qatar

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Source: (Maraseni T. N. et al., 2015)
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
2.41 2.41 2.39 2.39 2.4 2.4 2.4 2.4 2.39 2.39 2.39 2.39 2.39
5.36 5.35 5.34 5.32 5.31 5.3 5.3 5.3 5.31 5.31 5.31 5.32 5.33
Comparing The Average Houshold of UK and
Qatar
United Kingdom Qatar
Year
Average Household

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