STRATEGI WORK-LIFE BALANCE PADA DOSEN PEREMPUAN BERPERAN GANDA (STUDI KASUS DI PROGRAM STUDI ARSITEKTUR)

Challenge face by dual-career lecturer women is the demands in some aspects of their lives. In the year of 2000, three of five women worked and at 25 to 44-year-old there were 75% working women, 60% of them were working and having children under 12-year-old, and women who worked outside in their life were 90% (Betz, 2005). A negative role experience in some domains will become a stressor because of its incompatibility and give some effects on their physical, psychological, and interpersonal relationship. Those conditions will need a worklife balance strategy to harmonious their work and non-work domains. The aim of this research is to understand the strategy used by the dual-career lecturer women for balancing their work-life domain. This study used a qualitative method and case study as a research design. Respondents of this research are three lecturer women in the Department of Architecture and characterized as a marriage woman, having children, and having a high above average of job performance score. The results of this study showed there are eight strategies used by respondents to attempt work-life balance. They are alternating, outsorcing, bundling, techflexing, simplifying, hold on religious values, transfer of knowledge, and self-adjusting in society. The last three are the findings of this study. There are also some factors influence the work-life balance strategy, they are gratitude, trust, organizational and social support, and hardiness. Comfort value, religious value, and achievement value also have a role as driving factors to work-life balance strategy. The meaning of work was also found in this study, such as knowledge improvement, religious proselytizing, and self-improvisation, which has a role to enhance the work-life balance strateg