Chela-Álvarez, XeniaGarcía-Buades, M EstherFerrer-Perez, Victoria ABulilete, OanaLlobera Cànaves, Joan2024-10-092024-10-092023Chela-Alvarez X, Garcia-Buades ME, Ferrer-Perez VA, Bulilete O, Llobera J. Work-family conflict among hotel housekeepers in the Balearic Islands (Spain). PLoS One. 2023;18(3):e0269074.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13003/19067https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/23807The massive incorporation of women to the labour market has increased academic and applied interest on work-life issues throughout the years. This article aims to describe the domestic burden and difficulties in work-life balance (WLB) and to understand the intersection of work and family spheres among hotel housekeepers (HHs). A cross-sectional study was conducted through Primary Health Care in the Balearic Islands (Spain); 1,043 HHs were enrolled. 56.7% reported difficulties in WLB. Risk factors for perceiving difficulties in WLB were: living with someone else (regardless of the number of co-habitants), having difficulties making ends meet, being the main person in charge of domestic tasks, having a dependant, having an external locus of control, presenting higher levels of stress at work, working more hours a week and being younger. Protective factors from experiencing work-family conflict (WFC) were job and wage satisfaction. WFC is strongly influenced by individual, economic, labour and domestic factors: these relationships show that labour and domestic spheres are non-separate worlds.enghttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Family ConflictSpainFemaleHumansJob SatisfactionCross-Sectional StudiesSurveys and Questionnairesresearch articleAtribución 4.0 Internacional36989281183e026907410.1371/journal.pone.02690741932-6203PloS oneopen accessEstudios TransversalesSatisfacción en el TrabajoHumanosFemeninoEncuestas y CuestionariosEspañaConflicto Familiar2-s2.0-85151312711988321900001L2023670701