For the past decades, successful coordination of professional and family life has turned out to be an increasingly demanding challenge for employed parents due to work overload and simultaneous coordination of work with family activities. The main aim of the paper was to examine how the employees from the rural environment in the Škrilje pri Igu village face challenges related to coordinating professional and family life in addition to factors attributable to the rural environment (such as farming, gardening etc.).
The paper is comprised of two parts. The first part defines several elements related to work, family and their coordination, while the second part presents the research conducted on this topic. The research, which was carried out using a surveying method, wanted to determine how inhabitants of the rural environment coordinate professional and family life and what problems they face in doing so. The results from the survey showed that the respondents do not have many problems coordinating work and family. The problems they do face are various as the families and their lives differ from one another. According to the respondents, the most challenging elements are unfairly delegated chores, time spent doing chores and the lack of time for themselves and their family. Compared to men, women feel more burdened as they carry out most of the work and they spend a lot of time doing it, while men only help them.
The paper aims at analysing the situation of coordinating work and family as well as making the respondents aware of this problem. Almost every employee who starts a family has to coordinate professional and family life, which is why cooperation of individuals, employers and the government is crucial in solving this problem.
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