Globalisation and Work-Life Balance : A Study of Women Scientists in Taiwan

Globalisation and Work Life Balance :

A Study of Women Scientists in Taiwan

Prema Rajagopalan

Department of HSS, IIT Madras, India

Globalisation and the IT revolution has made access to information and developments in science more equitable. In what ways has this impacted on the work-life balance of women scientists?For `doing science’ is neither a 9-5 job nor routine work. `Social Circles’or informal networks among scientists traditionally has often excluded women both overtly and covertly. The real `profesional space ‘ women enjoy has always been debated.

This paper discusses how government policy and institutional responses in Taiwan have enabled women scientists to manage their work life balance effectively. Interviews with women scientists would unravel the match/mismatch between policy and practice on the one hand and cultural facilitators and constraints on the orther hand, An analysis of this dynamics would help us understand the nature and extent of career mobility of women scientists in Taiwan –Republic of China.