Problems of Working Women In Profession and Family (ebook)

Argumento de Problems of Working Women In Profession and Family (ebook)

The financial demands on the Indian families are becoming fiercer by day. The sky rocketing cost of living, increasing expenses on education of children,increasing cost of housing properties in India force every family in India to look for ways and means of increasing the household income. As a result, women in India who were mostly known as homemakers are forced to go for jobs and take up even careers that were considered only suitable for men such as working in night shifts in call centers or BPOs. They are left with no option but to fend for their families in all possible ways. Working women in India are faced with lot more challenges than their counterparts in the other parts of the world. In India men do not share on most of the household chores, it is women who have to cook, clean the house, do the dishes, wash clothes, get their children ready for school etc. Men just took care of few chores that are to be dealt outside the house. So the major burden of running the family is on the shoulders of women. It was alright for women to handle all the chores as long as they were homemakers. Now with their increasing need for getting some income for the family, they have to work all the more harder. They have to take up a 9 to 5 job plus handle all the household chores that they handled as a homemaker. Men's role has not changed much. Here researchers (authors of the book) have provided a survey based report conducted on married women working in teaching profession. Various types of problems faced by them viz. psycho-social, professional, family related etc. are collected and discussed. Further an attempt was made to highlight the reasons behind those problems.

Dr. Gouri Manik Manas may be hailed as an important breakthrough in this direction particularly from Social Work perspective that are quite rare to come by Dr. Manas is the personification of best in social works as a discipline and profession. Having obtained master degree and M.Phil degree in social work, she worked for her doctoral thesis on an ambitious project and the outcome was hailed as significant contribution to empirical literature on gender studies from social work perspective. She has served member on the faculty at the Post Graduate Department of Social work at Gulbarga University, Gulbarga before taking to active social work profession in various NGO's and government departments and developmental agencies. She has inmate tendency to focus on social issues with analytical approach and ameliorative perspective that renders her invaluable asset to any academic institution or in the execution of a research project she has attended several national and international conferences and has several publications to her credit. She has requisite theoretical moorings and empirical flair and finesse that lend a touch of class to all her contributions. She is working at present as a UGC Post Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Social Work, Gulbarga University, Gulbarga.

Dr. Jayashree S. Reddy is Ph. D. (Entitled "Lateral Thinking Training (LT) as a Strategy to the Cognitive Development and Achievement Motivation), M. Ed. (ET), M. S., B. Sc. (C.N and D)) presently serving as a UGC-Post Doctoral Fellow in Education, G.U.G, she has successfully guided many P.G. Dissertations and M. Phil. Degrees. She has actively participated in National and International Workshops, Symposiums, Seminars and Conferences and published many research papers in national and international journals. And serving as Editorial board member for five national and international peer reviewed journals. Many National organizations felicitated and awarded recognizing her academic and professional efficiency. She is actively associated with National and International bodies like NPC (National Psychological. Corporation, Agra), HIBS (Harprasad Institute of Behavioral Studies, Agra) and ICBRD (International Centre for Behavioral Research and Development, Gulbarga).0