Impact of Workload on Job Satisfaction of Women Workforce in Higher Health Sciences Education – A Study of Private Institutions
Shaila Chaudhari[0009-0001-3883-054X] 1 Pankajkumar Anawade2 [0000-0003-1613-2051] 2
Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and Research, Wardha, India
shaila.choudhari@dmiher.edu.in, pankaj.anawade@dmiher.edu.in
ABSTRACT
Women comprise a significant portion of the higher health sciences education workforce e.g. nursing, physiotherapy, pharmacy, dentistry and allied health sciences. Despite their increasing national professional involvement over the past decade, women employed at private institutions of higher education grapple with pressures of elevated and multi-dimensional workload. This workload consists of teaching, clinical supervision, administrative management, accreditation duties, research output targets and a lot of emotional labor. Through secondary sources such as peer-reviewed literature, institutional reports, empirical models, and open-access datasets, we also offer theoretical and practical insights into the effect of workload on job satisfaction of women faculty in a sample of private Health sciences institutions. The evidence suggests that work overload – particularly in combination with gendered distribution of work burden, inadequate support, absence of flexibility and comparatively fewer advancement opportunities – is a major predictor of decreased job satisfaction. Numerous comparative results point out higher ambivalence and dissatisfactions among women faculty in private institutions owning to better teaching, administrative and compliance responsibilities than among the public institutions. Study show that to promote job satisfaction it requires systematic distribution of the workload, gender-sensitive human resource policies, participatory leadership strategies and organized career development options. These results have important implications for policy makers and institutional administrators, academic planners and HR managers attempting to develop equitable and sustainable health sciences academic ecosystems.
KEYWORDS—Workload, Job Satisfaction, Women Faculty, Health Sciences Education, Private Institutions, Work–Life Balance
