Quantifying consensus on women's roles using fuzzy logic / Puzziawati Ab Ghani and Abdul Aziz Jemain

With greater access to education and rapid economic development coupled with higher costs of living especially in the urban areas, women are left with no choice but to look for and remain in employment. Women in urban society face more challenges in lives and shoulder multiple roles. The juggling a...

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Main Authors:	Ab Ghani, Puzziawati, Jemain, Abdul Aziz
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Language:	English
Published:	Fakuiti Teknologi Maklumat dan Sains Kuantitatif 2005
Subjects:	Women Quality of life Selangor Fuzzy logic
Online Access:	http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/11652/ http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/11652/1/AJ_PUZZIAWATI%20AB%20GHANI%20JTMSK%2005%201.pdf

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spelling	uitm-116522016-09-27T05:17:41Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/11652/ Quantifying consensus on women's roles using fuzzy logic / Puzziawati Ab Ghani and Abdul Aziz Jemain Ab Ghani, Puzziawati Jemain, Abdul Aziz Women Quality of life Selangor Fuzzy logic With greater access to education and rapid economic development coupled with higher costs of living especially in the urban areas, women are left with no choice but to look for and remain in employment. Women in urban society face more challenges in lives and shoulder multiple roles. The juggling act of balancing between work and family commitments that results in role conflict often drives women to favour one role over the other. What women put as their priority is crucial to the smooth running of family institution, which serves as a basic aspect of family happiness in securing the quality of life. This paper attempts to elucidate what are in the minds of working women when they make decision by investigating the consensus on their role priority. A fuzzy logic approach based on a fuzzy majority concept is employed. The data used are based on a case study among women academicians and supporting staff of Universiti Teknologi MARA in Shah Alam. The study shows that women's role priority still lies within the family domain/sphere. Fakuiti Teknologi Maklumat dan Sains Kuantitatif 2005 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/11652/1/AJ_PUZZIAWATI%20AB%20GHANI%20JTMSK%2005%201.pdf Ab Ghani, Puzziawati and Jemain, Abdul Aziz (2005) Quantifying consensus on women's roles using fuzzy logic / Puzziawati Ab Ghani and Abdul Aziz Jemain. Jurnal Teknologi Maklumat dan Sains Kuantitatif, 7 (1). pp. 29-39. ISSN 1823-0822
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description	With greater access to education and rapid economic development coupled with higher costs of living especially in the urban areas, women are left with no choice but to look for and remain in employment. Women in urban society face more challenges in lives and shoulder multiple roles. The juggling act of balancing between work and family commitments that results in role conflict often drives women to favour one role over the other. What women put as their priority is crucial to the smooth running of family institution, which serves as a basic aspect of family happiness in securing the quality of life. This paper attempts to elucidate what are in the minds of working women when they make decision by investigating the consensus on their role priority. A fuzzy logic approach based on a fuzzy majority concept is employed. The data used are based on a case study among women academicians and supporting staff of Universiti Teknologi MARA in Shah Alam. The study shows that women's role priority still lies within the family domain/sphere.
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author	Ab Ghani, Puzziawati Jemain, Abdul Aziz
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title	Quantifying consensus on women's roles using fuzzy logic / Puzziawati Ab Ghani and Abdul Aziz Jemain
title_short	Quantifying consensus on women's roles using fuzzy logic / Puzziawati Ab Ghani and Abdul Aziz Jemain
title_full	Quantifying consensus on women's roles using fuzzy logic / Puzziawati Ab Ghani and Abdul Aziz Jemain
title_fullStr	Quantifying consensus on women's roles using fuzzy logic / Puzziawati Ab Ghani and Abdul Aziz Jemain
title_full_unstemmed	Quantifying consensus on women's roles using fuzzy logic / Puzziawati Ab Ghani and Abdul Aziz Jemain
title_sort	quantifying consensus on women's roles using fuzzy logic / puzziawati ab ghani and abdul aziz jemain
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Quantifying consensus on women's roles using fuzzy logic / Puzziawati Ab Ghani and Abdul Aziz Jemain

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