Work-Life Balance and the Development of Female Engineers

Abstract

Three points are discussed in this article. The first is what work-life balance means from the view point of Human Resource Management. In confronting work-life balance matters, we need now is to focus on autonomy that crosses the boundary between the work sphere and the rest of life sphere. We call the autonomy proclaimed by the author “boundary autonomy” that is, the degree of freedom to design the interface between work and life spheres by employees themselves. The second point is the real situation of male employees who take childcare leaves. The last is to show the basic idea of the development of female engineers.