Volume : VII, Issue : V, May - 2017

ATTITUDE OF URBAN EMPLOYED WOMEN TOWARDS VARIOUS GENDER ROLES

Sneha Chandrapal

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 Background: Women constitute nearly half of the population contribute more than half of the duties and responsibility of the family, but are hardly empowered to participate in decision making. They were not given any rights; they were supposed to do domestic work and to look after their children. Gradually, with the passage of time, the concepts of “Working Women” come in to existence. Women had begun to come out of the domestic sphere and have begun to take up professional roles outsides their homes. This has helped them to realize their potential, to oaden their outlook and to create a new meaning in their lives. Methods: The research design is exploratory in nature as it explores the attitude of employed women towards gender issue. It is descriptive in nature as it describes views of urban employed women on various gender issues. So, the research design of study is exploratory cum descriptive in nature. 70 urban employed women from Anand city were selected as its sample size by using simple random sampling procedure. Findings: Most of the women (44.28%) are from 24–34 years age group. Majority of the employed women (84.28%) believe that responsibility of taking care of children should be equally divided between mother and father; most of the respondents (35.71%) strongly agree that both husbands and wives should share equally in housework. 

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Sneha Chandrapal, ATTITUDE OF URBAN EMPLOYED WOMEN TOWARDS VARIOUS GENDER ROLES, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume‾7 | Issue‾5 | May‾2017

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