Abstract:

Women are becoming serious contenders in the pursuit of career development. Pursuing challenging careers and take greater part in fulfilling the family responsibilities coupled with gender inequality, excessive work demands and work intensification has made female organizational commitment an interest area of research. This study therefore reports on gender perceptions of work–life balance, self-efficacy and spousal support as they affect organizational commitment of female workers holding administrative positions in universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education in Ogun State, Southwest Nigeria. One hundred and fifty-two administrators were randomly selected from the pool of female workers in the administrative cadre of each of the six institutions used in the survey.  Three instrumentsw were adopted Work-life balance was measured using six items adapted from Carlson et al’s. (2009) while Van Daalen et al’s (2006) Spousal support was used to measure spousal support and Allen and Meyer’s Organizational Commitment Scale (1996) was used to measure organizational commitment. It was concluded that female workers holding administrative positions were contended with the work climate of their institutions and were quite confident of their abilities to cope with the challenges of their official positions