Exploration of Workaholic Characteristics of Married Women in Healthcare sector during Pandemic situations

Women in professional and family life are facing lot of challenges where they are struggling to manage their work pressure and family responsibilities. In healthcare sectors, the employees especially the nurses have to carry out shift work and have to perform morning, evening and night shifts. It is analysed and proved by many analysts that mostly the women from middleclass family life are subject to such work-life challenges in particular the women nurses especially during pandemic situations. This study focuses on Workaholism which is an extreme work force that leads to the disregard of others’ welfare and harmful effects faced by the women nurses especially who are married. In this aspect, the research was conducted to examine the workaholic characteristics of married women especially the nursing professionals during the pandemic period. The study was conducted by collecting data from women nurses from South part of India and the sample size derived for the study is 200. The findings reveal that Continuous thoughts of Work Involvement, Accepts Extra Work Time, Task Oriented, Compensation based on Work Performance and No Botheration about Work life Balance are the major workaholic characteristics of women nurses especially who are married.