CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1   Background to the Study

The correlation between a parent’s financial stability and independence and their other filial and emotional duties to their family has been a major issue especially for the human resources management department of different firms. This is as the two duties pose a very difficult situation as they both deeply demand the time commitment of the employee which he or she can hardly give adequately to each. To add to the bargain, the promotion process of employees takes majorly into account the commitment and result made by employees with little or no considerable to the marital status and its tolls and demands on the employee.

For this reason, the questions has gained sociological implications as it is grappled with frequently by feminist for the sole reason that those mostly affected by this are female employees. The demand is so significant so much so that most female employees begin to leave work the moment they are married and begin building a family. Often it is not so with male employees and in the event that it is it can arguably be said to be minor in relation to their female counterparts.

It makes convincing argument under the feminist movement seeing that the situation makes employer to make little or no time and training investment on the female employees while some employer outright terminate the employee of married female employees or make a policy of not hiring them in the first place.