Family Benefits—What Are Students' Attitudes and Expectations by Gender?

Abstract

Benefits and leave policies are important aspects of employment when employees attempt to balance career and family. These policies include salary, promotion, vacation, tuition reimbursement, sick leave, medical insurance, life insurance, maternity or paternity leave, eldercare leave, discriminatory leave, and company support and counseling. The authors examined the students' attitudes concerning benefits and leave policies in the workplace. A one-way analysis of variance revealed that vacation leave, sick leave, and family leave involving children were more important to women than to men. A Wilcoxon rank sum test ranked family leave as the Number 1 benefit for both men and women.

Keywords:

• benefits
• career
• family
• leave policy
• student attitude