Relationship between employees? work family balance and gender roles perception and personel characteristics: A study at a large scale firm

If we divide the life of people into two parts we can talk about work life and family life. Under our todays life conditions people started to give the same importance to their work life as they do to their family life. Even some can not give enough importance to their family life because of their work life. When the situation is like this it is impossible to avoid facing imbalance between work and family life. Work and family life imbalance occurs when people can not arrange the time they spend and importance that they should give to family and work life. Today man and woman?s work-life balance show differences. From past to now expectations of the society from genders became fixed due to the gender role stereotypes made by the society. For example at life, houseworks are assigned to women since they are mothers and protection and being worrier is assigned to man. Today both man and women are trying to do their gender roles at work and they also try to do their responsibilities at life. At this point some people became successful at balancing work and family life and some others complain about not managing this balance. Examining the relationship between peoples understanding of work and family life balance, gender roles and personal characteristics is important for people to know themselves better. They can make the roles which are assigned to them more elastic in order to balance work and family life. On the other hand examining the relationship between peoples understanding of work and family life balance, gender roles and personal characteristics will expend this academic literature.In order to reach to this aim, gender role?s work life balance understanding which are connection, sensivitiy, self confidence, wisdom, freedom etc? and their relation personal characteristics are examined.The space of the study is consisting of white-collar workers working in a big manufacturing company. Data are collected by reaching to 97 of these workers. Collected data were analysed by using SPSS programme. According to the general result of the study people who are more active, logical and who have more self confidence, empathy ability are more successful at balancing work and life than the ones who are more passive, emotional and aggressive. Besides this people who are married but do not have child have stronger balance at work and life than the single ones.