Volume : VIII, Issue : VII, July - 2019

WORKING WOMEN ISSUES AND HEALTH PROBLEMS IN UNORGANIZED SECTOR

Ms. Nirmala Fousta. A

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India is a traditional country and there is blend in religions, traditions and customs. In India women’s role is mostly household based and limited to domestic issues. The economic participation of Women in the field of production of possessions and services are accounted in the national income statistics yet, the work participation of female has always been low at 26% when compared to 52% of men. Women always take dual responsibility and play a pivotal role in making the decisions especially working women. Women‘s contribution in work is considered in terms of the number of tasks performed and time spent into work environment, is greater than non–working women. Thus women play a major role of working women and homemaker. Women working in unorganized sectors faces many problems related to their nature of work are quite different from other professions as they work for long hours with low wages. The above reasons have made the investigator to study the reasons for working, various health problems faced by women working in unorganized sectors, and to identify the preventive ways for it. The study was done by using a questionnaire which was collected from 30 selected women working in unorganized sector in Chennai. Data indicated that majority of women working in unorganized sector faced problems due to knee pain, swelling of legs and arms, skin problems, and mental stress due to insecure job, no proper work time and low wages

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WORKING WOMEN ISSUES AND HEALTH PROBLEMS IN UNORGANIZED SECTOR, Ms. Nirmala Fousta. A PARIPEX‾INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-7 | July-2019

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