“CHALLENGES FACED BY WORKING WOMEN”

Submitted by :
07 Geet Basantani
19 Hema Idnani
36 Nisha Nandwani
43 Sakshi Rawal
64 Jaya Anwani
“TABLE OF CONTENTS :”
 CHAPTER 1 : INTRODUCTION

ABSTRACT :
India is a traditional country and there is diversity in religions, culture and customs.
Role of the women in India mostly is household and limited to domestic issues. In
some cases, women can find employment as nurses, doctors, teachers the caring and
nurturing sectors. Hardship of woman in every stage of life is always difficult to
categorize as she is the only entity in the world that is facing such a changing phase in
her life like birth as a girl child, becoming wife and finally becoming mother. In the
era of 21st century, woman wants be equal opportunities as man and foremost
challenge is how to balance work and home. Gender bias, unequal pay, mental and
physical harassment, insufficient leave are some of the key issues of working woman
at the workplace.
The results of the study showed that different age group of working women have
different kinds of problems and challenges and different categories as married, single,
divorcee, separated, have different issues at stake in the workplace. Some problems
are definitely common, like mental and physical stress, stressful life and work place
discrimination etc. But some challenges are age or category specific, like prejudiced
and stereotyped thinking, safety and security issues, and problem of glass ceiling etc.
Some probable solutions for problems plaguing urban working women that could help
them to overcome the problems that they face in the workplace are proper safety and
security measures by the parent organizations, sensitive and supporting partners at
home, and appropriate grievance redressal mechanisms for women in place at the
workplace.
Introduction :
Sneak peek into their life
In earlier days the contribution of a woman was restricted only to her home and family but
now, crossing the thorny boundaries of the society, women have ventured into corporate. The
growth of education and awareness has led women to work in industries and corporate.
“Women are not only the backbone of nuclear and joint families but also the national
economy”. Women have started venturing into areas which were seen as dominated by men.
Women in all fields have proved their excellence and skills. They have proved their
commitment and versatility for ages and have also carried different roles successfully. When
highlighting BPO industry, women constitute a major part of the BPO (BUSINESS
PROCESS OUTSOURCING) sector and their contribution to this area is huge.

Developmental history
In the history of human development, women have been as vital in the history making as men
have been. In fact, higher status for women vis-à-vis employment and work performed by
them in a society is a significant indicator of a nation’s overall progress. Undoubtedly,
without the active participation of women in national activities, the social, economic or
political progress of a country will deteriorate and become stagnant. But ironically and
tragically, women employees in general, are not taken very seriously by their superiors,
colleagues, or society at large. Having a career poses challenges for women due to their
family responsibilities. Traditionally Indian women had been home makers but in the recent
decades, proper education and better awareness, in addition to the ever-increasing cost of
living has made them to go out and choose careers. In a patriarchal society like India, it is still
believed that a man is the primary bread winner of his family not women. Although Indian
women have started working outside their homes but still, they have a long way to go both
culturally, socially and economically, to bring in positive attitudinal changes in the mind-set
of people.

Scenario of working women

Scenario of Working Women are the backbone of the society. She plays a vital role in the
economic development of the country and her contribution is as equal as their male
counterparts. Without active participation of women in various national, social, economic and
political activities, the progress of the country will be stagnant. Traditionally, Indian women
had been Home makers but in 21st Century, due to higher education, better awareness and
increasing financial demands of family, women also go out and choose careers. Although
Indian women have started working outside their homes, but still there are several issues and
challenges that working women face today. Sometimes they are not treated equally in their
workplace. They do not get the same benefits as that of male employees too. Gender bias,
unequal pay, security, mental and physical harassment, lack of proper family support,
insufficient maternity leave are considered as major issues and challenges that working
woman faces nowadays. The working and social scenario in today’s era is far different than
that of twenty-thirty years ago. Advances in technology plus evolving work and the role of
family for women in India have changed the contribution to the business environment of 21st
century. The financial demands for Indian families are rising day by day. Higher 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 household income.
As a result, women in India, who were mostly known as homemakers, are forced to go for
jobs and take the challenges that were considered only suitable for men such as working in
night shifts in call centres or BPOs. Today women are giving their best and active
contribution in all the male-dominated fields such as sports, medical, law, military,
academics, politics, bank, top level corporate positions etc. In recent era working women can
spend less time in household works than they did thirty years ago. Moreover, Indian working
women are facing lot more challenges than their counterparts in other parts of the world.

Balancing personal and professional life

In India, still men are considered as the primary winner and boss of the family. Although
working women handle their professional life in facing competition and challenges at work
place and personnel life in managing household work, handle children, family, cooking,
social responsibilities are still considered as the duty of women only. They have to take up a
full day job plus handle all household activities that they handled as homemaker. Due to such
multitasking efforts of woman increased stress becomes by-product for her. Sometimes, the
relationship with her Saul mate becomes unbalanced, if proper balancing act is not delivered
in both personal and professional life. If we consider women’s role in corporate environment,
then sometimes they have to bring their work at home also and it cuts few more hours of
sleep. It is not just about the reduced sleep, but this type of lifestyle creates stress in working
women and it directly affects her family. Waking up early, ignoring her health issues and get
all the stuffs ready for children and her husband is big practical challenge. So, on an average,
women have lost 2 hours of sleep per day and up to 14 hours sleep per day. Many Indian
families are still living as joint families along with their in-laws and parents. This adds more
stress to women because they have to handle them and please all the family members of her
husband. The belief of male superiority in the society creates several hurdles for women at
their workplace. Women discover that they must be much better than their male colleague to
reach at the top. When she achieves that top position in the company, again it is much
difficult for women to work with male employees. Also because of social and psychological
tradition in the society, the women colleagues too don’t lend support to their own woman
boss. Working in such conditions inevitably put much greater strain on women than man.
These types of problems make women less eager to progress in their career. It has been
observed that the family responsibility expands the working women have to change their job,
select part time job or leave the job. This situation creates unnecessary stress for losing their
job. Generally, women are more hesitant in financial investments. They are more cautious
about money. There is a saying for women: “The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world”.
Saving is the habit of women. In earlier days also, when women were only homemakers, they
were used to save money for emergencies as well as for future planning. In those days,
women did not have knowledge of various investment outlets. But in 21st Century, the
working women have become more aware about the financial investments and they have the
great potential to bring a positive change in socio economic conditions of the country.
Today’s working women invest in various investment avenues like shares, debentures,
mutual funds, commodities etc.

Negligible Personal Space

Indian working women have to maintain a balance between their families and career if they
want to achieve independence and success in their lives. In this hassle, women get restless.
They try to increase their working power for their work which makes them lacking in sleep.
They gradually feel frustrated and helpless because no one is there to help and support them.
They sometimes feel isolated and due to this, they have to face many emotional and
psychological problems. Insomnia and depression are two major mental problems that Indian
working women usually suffer from. They feel an immense lack of personnel space. They
have no time for themselves. They feel unable to share their feelings with anyone because
they know that no one will understand them. Under this psychological pressure, they are left
with only two options: either to give up the job or to accept the depression as a part of their
working life.
 CHAPTER 2
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
There are various types of issues that woman have to face throughout her work life and home
life. These issues create an environment of pressure for working women. They have to take
care of their children and older in their homes, Role of a care provider to the children and the
aged, which predominantly requires physical labour. Balancing acts as a working woman and
a wife, means they have to perform a dual responsibility. For balancing this type of dual
pressure women are affected by various types of psychological, social and physical problems.

They are being challenged by the demands of their institutions versus the commitment of
their home (Lakshmi & Gopinath, 2013). Family and work conflicts are more likely to apply
negative influences in the family domain, resulting in lower life satisfaction and greater
internal conflict within the family. Work and family have increasingly become adversary
spheres; both are equally demanding energy and time; both are equally responsible for work-
life and family life conflicts (Balaji, 2014).

Gopalakrishnan and Gandhi (2013) in their study “Working Women and their problems in
daily life: A Sociological Analysis” conducted a survey on the women who are working in
the colleges in the Tiruvannamalai District to find out their daily life’s problems. Even
though most (72%) of the respondent is living in the joint family, but they are expressing the
problems like anxiety, depression and inferiority complex in their daily life. The economic
condition of the family pushes them to go to work, but nobody supports them in the family
matters. So, the study suggested that when the married women go for work, then the family
members, including the husband should support them in various household activities and that
they relieve them from various problems and the pressure of both families as well as work
environment.

“Problems faced by Working Women in India” a study conducted by Dashora (2013)

explains the various problems faced by working women in India. Working women are subject
to mental and sexual harassment at the workplace, working women faced biases in salary,
skills and technical efficiency. The public transport system, unwanted attention of the
colleagues and boss attribute to sexual favours. The psychological pressure created from all
this leads a situation where a woman is no more able to pursue her job. The traditional way of
thinking men as the bread-winner and women as exclusively meant for household tasks
continuously creates hurdles for the working women.

A report published by ILO titled as “Women and the future of Work- Beijing +20 beyond”
has been emphasizing upon the negative repercussions of violence in the world of work. The
report explained that in some cultures threat of violence has been the reason for limiting
women in the home sphere. Violence in some service sector like as health, education, and
tourism have been a cause for concern in protecting these workers.
Avais, Wassen and Shah (2014) in their study “A case study on problems of Working
Women in city Sukkar” find out the various types of problems that working women face like
as domestic problems as well as official matters. The study was explorative in nature to
investigate the problems of working women in Sukkar. They identified a maximum number
of problems of working women they face from morning to evening. The working women
have dual work roles in one front they have roles related to caring and rearing, in another
front, they have to handle out the issues of sexual, emotional, and financial abuse outside and
inside the home. The study mainly focused on that sexual harassment is a ground reality in
working women of Sukkar and there is a need for the implementation of the legislation
passed by the government.

Nawaz, Afzal & Shehzadi (2013) in their study “Problems of formally employed women: a
case study of Bahawalnagar, Pakistan” highlights the problems faced by working women
informal sector in Bahawalnagar. By using a stratified random sampling method, data
collected from four public sectors departments like as police, nursing, teaching and college
lecturers. By using the descriptive analysis method, the result of the study revealed that
policewomen faced low social status and non-recognition of their jobs, nurses faced
unscheduled working hours and low wages and school teachers want higher wages for their
work. The study mainly examines the social and domestic problems of formally employed
women as well as verifies the behaviour of family members and social circle of formally
employed women towards their job in the focused area. The study concluded that the working
women of Bahawalnagar faced various social and workplace problems like as; their working
hours are too long, most of the respondents face unavailability of transportation, most of the
respondents have no job security, they have very low allowance, they are facing gender
discrimination and the problem that is especially related to school teachers and nurses is of
low wages. The problems of policewomen in the present study are related to their long and
spontaneous work hours. They are ranked low in social as well as professional hierarchy. The
study is limited to 100 sample size and formal sector only.

Rani (2013) in her study titled “Marital Adjustment Problems of Working and Non-Working
Women, in contrast to their Husband” tries to find out the marital adjustment issues of
working women teachers. A sample of 80 women (40 working and 40 non-working women)
collected for this purpose through random selection. The result revealed that non-working
wives are facing more marital adjustment problems in comparisons to their partners. Working
women, who are married, have dual responsibilities at home and work spheres. They need
more co-operation and adjustment to manage both spheres. The dual roles expectations
promote overstrain among married working women. These dual role expectations lead to the
situations where married working women have not the proper time for their spouses. This
causes marital maladjustment. The study concludes that working women are facing
maladjustment at both fronts-home and office.
Goyal and Parkash (2011) examined the problems of women entrepreneurship in their study
“Women Entrepreneurship in India- Problems and prospects”. The study highlights that the
educated women of India have to go to a long run for achieving their equality in Indian society. The
study evaluates the factors that are responsible for the encouragement of women for becoming
entrepreneurs. Major reasons like as Male-Chauvinism, patriarchal thinking and lack of confidence
are the main obstacles in the path of women. The outdated thinking and social pressure discourage
women to go forward in the field of entrepreneurship. Indian women give more emphasis to
family ties and responsibilities. Besides this Indian Constitution provides the equal rights to
women, the government-sponsored activities have only benefited to just a small section of
educated women, the need of the hour is to awareness among all the other sections too.
Highly educated, professionally qualified and technically sound should be encouraged for
managing their own business.

In another study Nisa (2013) highlighted the triple role of working women, as housewives,
mothers, and workers. This study titled as “Time constraint of Working Mothers- a
Sociological study” attempts to examine the relationship between working mothers work
status and family environment and its consequential effects on the adjustment of their
children. A majority of the respondents (96%) confessed that they did not get sufficient time
to spend with their children, even when they returned from their office majority of
respondents (94%) were not in a position to attend their children. The analysis revealed that
mother’s presence is necessary for the child’s physical as well as mental development and in
her absence the problems are inevitable.

“Work stress of women employee: a literature review” titled as a study of Kundaragi and
Kadakol. In their study, they revealed the theoretical form of stress. Eustress and distress are
the two types of stress. If someone views a situation positively, he or she can cope with any
situation. Stress in a negative sense becomes the reason for the distress. The environment,
social, physiological stressors, and thoughts are the main sources of stress. Women employee
can do the work enthusiastically when they get the stress positively. The unreasonable
demands of others can create a situation where women employee takes stress in negative
manners, and the distress among them affects their mood, activity and daily routine.

Maurya and Agarwal in their study “factors affecting stress and well-being of women
employee” proposed a theoretical formation that encourages towards the well-being of
women employees. The research explored the literature and pointed out that the well-being of
female workers at workers should not be neglected. The work conditions should be according
to the wellness of female employers. The overall performance and quality of the work of the
employee demonstrate the well-being of the employee. The good well-being of female
employees increased the turnover and performance of the institutions.

Raghunath in his work titled as “Mental health of middle-aged working women” assessed the
mental health of middle-aged working women. In the middle age, social, psychological and
biological changes affect the dual roles of working women. The middle age brings fear,
tension, anxiety, menopause, loss of memory with it. The study consisted sample size of 60
women with the help of quota sampling method. Results revealed that 92% of middle-aged
working women are facing mental health-related issues. The study suggested that coping
strategies should be modified for the welfare of the middle-aged working women.

Babu & Vembu in their work “occupational stress experienced by women employees in the banking
sector” explained the effect of stress on the experience of working women in the banking sector in
the Thiruvarur district of Tamilnadu. The physical and psychological stress among the
workers not only affects their health in one hand, but also affects the performance and
financial growth of the institutions in another hand. Stress among the employees creates an
environment where their progress stunned by absenteeism and they lost their focus on work.
Employees under stress faced immediate challenges in their psychological health as irritation,
bad mood, less interest in work, tension, troublesome relationship with colleagues, etc. The
study highlighted the three-level workplace stress as the individual level, group level, and
organizational level. The researchers concluded that in the public sector for the bank
employees the main stressors are poor work conditions, work overload, lack of social support,
poor work relationship and less participation in decision making and technological changes in
the organization.

Priya (2013) in “a study on job stress of women employees in IT and ITeS industries,
Tamilnadu” utilized the sample of 384 respondents to analyse the impact of job stress on the
physical and psychological well-being of women employees. Job insecurity, unreasonable
demands, less inter-personal communication between employer and employees, long work
hours, not adequate time for family, role demands at home and work sphere are the causes
behind workplace stress among working women. The study revealed that a meeting deadlines
and job insecurity are the main reason for stress among working women. Working women in
IT and ITeS industries are facing more psychological stress than physiological stress. By
getting support from management working women can reduce their job stress.

Nagaraju and Nandini (2013) in their study analyses the occupational stress among women
employees of the insurance industry. The study tries to measure the influence of age factor in
occupational stress. With the use of random sampling method, data has been collected from
100 respondents who are working in the insurance sector. The questionnaire prepared for
measuring the stress and satisfaction level of working women in the insurance industry.
Results discovered that role isolation, some demographic variables influence the level of
stress among working women. In the insurance industry targets are unrealistic and
unattainable, and demands long hours. The long hours of field work pressurized the
employees to do over time that affects their family life, mental health, and work capacity. By
the use of meditation, physical work, exercise and morning walk employees can manage their
mental health status.
Joshi et al. (2014) examine the stress of working women in the education field. The study
utilizes the sample of 50 Assistant Professors of different streams of Bhilai Mahila
Mahavidyalaya Hospital Sector, Bhilai. By using self-designed questionnaire the study
revealed that excessive work was the main reason the increasing rate of stress among working
women. Over expectations and overburden of responsibilities made them anxious and
depressed. They have to act, react and perform according to the role demands, they cannot
say no to their families and office authorities.

Kumar (2016) in his study carried a primary survey of 600-700 working women of organized
sector and 600-700 working women of an unorganized sector of Hyderabad-Karnataka
region. The primary objectives of the study were to highlight the working conditions of
working women that may create the ill-health of working women. The awareness among
working women for a regular medical check-up, to find out the particular psychological and
physical health problems of working women is lacking. The study finds out that even though
working women are economically secured, but they are negligence towards their own health
due to lack of time for self at different ages.

Suman and Chatterjee (2015) in their research article titled as “psychological and physical
well-being in working women” compared the health status of working and non-working
women by using standard short form SF-36 questionnaire. The study highlights that if the
work pressure on working women reduces, then it will be automatically good for the
psychological well-being of working women. The study compared the housewives with
working women and revealed that because of less physical functioning and role limitations,
housewives faced a smaller number of problems as compared to working women.

Sadiq and Ali (2014) examine the psychological ill-being in married working women as a
consequence of the dual responsibilities they pay at home and workplace in their study titled
as “Dual Responsibility: A Contributing factor to contributing Psychological ill-being in
married working women”. Sample of fifty married working women and fifty married non-
working women in Karachi, Pakistan was compared for this purpose. Finding of the study
reveals that owing to dual responsibility married working women significantly reported more
somatic complaints, social dysfunction, anger and hostility than married non-working women
because of over-burden of dual responsibilities. Managing workplace and family problems,
taking care of children, husbands and in-laws in the absence of insufficient time for taking
rest are major issues of married working women with middle-class socio-economic status. All
these factors are playing a distal role in making them psychologically ill. Besides,
psychological issues of married non-working women must be addressed in the context of
household responsibilities they pay from dawn to dusk.

Krishnan (2014) tries to analyses the mental and physical stress among working women, the
various factors that contribute to stress. The study was conducted among 100 working women
from different sectors in Bangalore city on the basis of stratified random sampling methods.
The study reveals that multiple role demands and conflicting expectations create an
environment of work pressure. Multitasking creates an environment of stress for women
where they have to perform extra economic roles as well as the same household roles and
responsibilities.

Mankani &Yenagi (2012) in their work “comparative study of mental health of working and
non-working women” conducted a primary survey to access the mental health of working
women. The study consisted of 90 working and 90 non-working women from the Dharwad
district of Karnataka. The researchers had used mental health inventory prepared by Jagdish
and Srivastav (1983) and socio-economic status scale by Aggarwal et al. (2005). The results
revealed that the working women had better mental health as compared to non-working
women. Housewives in rural areas had better mental health as compared to farm women. The
demographic factors have a positive and significant relationship with the mental health of
working women. Age, education level, type and size of family, income, number of children,
living standards had a direct relationship with the mental health of working and non-working
women.

Several studies have shown that work and family work-load impose a negative effect on
individual mentality and physiology. Studies have shown that women report a higher level of
stress as compare to their counterparts. Zhang (2010) studied the sources of work stress
among women academics in research universities of China. She examined that women
academician faced more difficulties in fulfilling both academic work and family role.
Another study conducted by Zarra et al. (2010) there are many facets in working mother’s
lives that subject to stresses. They deal with home and family issues as well as job stress on a
daily basis. The imbalance between work and family life arises due to a number of factors.
Various factors appear to strengthen the brunt of pressure on women. Using correlation and
regression analysis, results suggested that there was a significant positive relationship
between levels of occupational stress and family difficulties in working women.

Conclusion
Married women have the dual responsibilities of concentrating on the family as well as at work,
balancing between home and workplace. So the problems of the working women are manifold and
multidimensional. By getting proper co-operation from their families and society they can easily
perform their dual task. If men help them in their family and social sphere they can easily prove their
efficiency. It is not wrong to say that women are also economically empowered if they have equal
opportunities and contribution towards family and society. We can enable our women economically
empowered by providing them equal sphere. Then we can easily say, “Gone are the days when we
said our mothers are merely housewives, now we have economically and socially empowered and
efficient mothers”.
 CHAPTER : RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Introduction :
The study is exploratory in nature and seeks to identify the problems and challenges faced by
urban women in different professional sectors like public sector enterprises, banks, schools
and colleges, hospitals, commercial organizations etc. The present study surveyed urban
working women employees in white and blue collared jobs. The study was conducted within
Ulhasnagar city. Ulhasnagar, which was once a military camp during the pre - independence
era, is now a major commercial centre of Maharashtra and changed the business scenario in
the City with creating new and better opportunities. Ulhasnagar, which is located northeast of
Mumbai, comes under the Thane district of Maharashtra state. The business in the city has
achieved tremendous progress in various types of industries during recent years.

Statement of Problem :
The present study lights upon the various challenges faced by working women and attempts
made to overcome them. Indian women are allowed to work in today’s life; but still they are
facing lot more problem in social as well professional life to balance both as priority need.
 Gender biases begin to take place at a very early stage for Indian women. It is very difficult
to accept the fact that women are also capable of working shoulder to shoulder with men.
Indian society supports male dominance in all major, important and challenging tasks
whereas women are considered to be weak and only capable of bearing lesser work pressure
at the work place.
Balancing Personnel and Professional life is a very big challenge for Indian working women
to maintain a balance between their work and family. In India, the career and professional
aspirations are still considered as secondary for women. In this type of dual roles to become
perfect in all tasks, the working women feel very much stressed in her day to day life .

Objectives -
1. To analyze the real problem faced by them in their personal life.
2. To analyse whether working women get equal pay and equal rights at their workplace.
3. To find out possible solutions that could help them to overcome the problems that they
face.

Hypothesis
❖ Null –
There are no problem and challenges related to equal rights and pay faced by working
women.

❖ Alternate -
There are working cultures and personal problems faced by working women

Limitations :
All scientific inquiries are subjected to few limitations, although these may differ with
respect to the magnitude of limitations. The findings of the present study are subject to the
following limitations:
1. The study area was confined to one small township. Thus the results of the study are
applicable only to similar kind of situation analysis.
3. Because of limitation of time and other resources involved in research, the present study
was restricted to a limited number of samples. The result drawn from this study, therefore
may have limited application i.e., it cannot be assumed to provide information, capable of
generalization over other regions and could have regional biasness, but surely the broad
similarities specific to a particular gender, will provide some insight to the study.

Data collection and processing :

Both qualitative and quantitative aspects have been taken into consideration for the study.
The methodology followed was a questionnaire-based survey among the working women of
Ulhasnagar.
The questionnaire consists of 16 questions on various aspects of study. Questionnaires were
distributed to a sample of 150 working women located in Ulhasnagar city. Out of which 100
valid and complete responses were received. The questionnaire consisted of 12 open ended
and 4 close ended questions to meet the objectives of study.
The items in the questionnaire included urban working women issues related key
parameters like promotion issues, family care issues, discrimination based on gender,
workplace discrimination and prejudices, travelling time etc. The statements/items for the
questionnaire were formed after consulting relevant literature and some preliminary study
conducted in the area. Besides the attitude scale, the survey questionnaire also included a
section to capture the general profile of respondents. They were asked about their
demographic background including age, education level, annual income and position in
employment.

Steps in data processing :

1) The data was first collected in a raw manner considering various factors.
2) Further it was edited & coded in questionnaire form.
3) The graphical representation was done in the form of pie diagram covering various
parameters.
4) The data was finally decoded in the form of recorded responses.
 CHAPTER 4
DATA ANALYSIS

Educational Qualification Of Responded:

According to above information, 54.7% of working women are graduate, 24.2%

women are professional in particular field, 13.7%, are post graduate and remaining
are in other course.

Age of respondent:

According to above information 47.9% women are under 20-30 age group and the lowest is
5.37% which are covered 50-60 age group .
Annual income:

According to above information, 70.8% women earns 1-3 lakh income and 18% earns more
than 5 lakhs and remaining women earn 3-5 lakhs of income

Qualities that describe you position:

According to above information, the lowest i.e 7.9% of women are in secretarial/ clerical
position, 21.3% are skilled crafts men and highest are 61.8% women in management
executive.

According to above information, 53.2% of women are working under 5-6 hours and 8-9 hours
and the highest person of women i.e 30.9% works under 6-7 hours
According to above information, 31.6% of women get monthly appraisals, 23.7% get
employed skilled training and 31.6% awards based on performance, remaining percent of
women annual travel vouchers.

According to above information, 60,2% women takes 30-1 hours to travel, 23.7% takes 1-2
hours, 11.8% take 2-3 hours and remaining takes 3-4 hours.

Facilities at work place:

According to above information, 61.4% assemble during lunch time, 24.1% get medication
facilities, 36.2% get pick and drop and power nap facilities.
Payment according to capabilities:

According to above information, 45.2% of women feel that they are paid according to their
capabilities, 25.8% feel that they are not paid according to their capabilities.

Factors that progress your present position:

According to above information, 37.1% of women get training programmes to develop work
efficiency, 27% get rewards as per skill 23.6% get standardized working environment and
remaining get institutional support.
Initiative to manage work life:

According to above information, 41.6% allow work from home, 37.1% gets leaves to manage
work life and remining get flexible work timings.

Possible to attend family functions:

According to above information, 62.8% women attend family functions, 33% women some
times attend and remaining does not attend family functions.
Times spend with your children:

According to above information, 33.8% women spend more than 4 hours with their child,
26.3% spend 1-2 hours, 21.2% spend 2-3 hours and remaining spend 3-4 hours.

Meet your friends:

According to above information, 36.6% of women meet their friends once in a month, 26.9%
meet once in a week, 25.8% meet within 2-3 months and remaining choice a week.
Support from your family:

According to above information, 55.4% women get work life balancing support, 21.7% get
emotional support 14.1% get financial support and remaining get social support.

Over time or work load on holidays:

According to above information, 35.1% women thinks that their work demand over time on
holiday, 23.4% does not demand over time on holidays, 20.2% demand work load and
remaining demand work load very rare.
Health problems:

According to above information, 5.3% of women face diabetes, 5.2% have blood pressure
and 89.5% have no health issues.

Equal pay for equal work:

According to above information, 53.8% gets equal pay for equal work, 20.9% does not get
equal pay for equal work.
Rotation of employees and pay scale at your workplace:

According to above information, 51.9% rotation of employees get revised annually, 23.5%
revised monthly, 16% revised annually and remaining quarterly.

Perception regarding life of working women:

According to above information, 53.2% women are self sufficient, 22.3% are a work life
balancer, 12.8% acquiring sound position in corporate world and remaining a dignified
career.
RECOMMENDATIONS

1.Women should be inspired to do professional courses and higher education after

graduation.

2. Women in the age group of 30-40 years should be encouraged to work more.

3. Child care facilities and Child care leave for working women should be provided by every
organisation.

4. Flexible timing and Possibility to work from home are required for working women.

5. Extra traveling vouchers should be provided to working women other than remuneration
because sometimes they are tired of balancing the work life and personal life altogether.

6.Women should be given jobs in their locality so that she gets more time to spend on herself
and with the family.
Conclusion

Pro-women are not means anti-men but still today’s scenario all people mind-set is like men
are the bread-winners and women are the house-keepers of the family. But it’s time to change
the attitude or thinking point of view of World Wide Web. Her tasks and challenges have
enlarged and toughened multifold now when she is super multi-tasking; juggling between
career, work-family life, travelling kitchen, personal health, husband, society, passion, kids,
desires, house, relationship, personal and social life. Balancing between so many duties and
obligations Indian working woman faces various challenges and problems every day, every
time, and may be every second minute or second. The problems and challenges faced by
working women in their workplaces should be put to a side and it can be say that men and
women have equal rights and status. Also there are various low in India for protecting women
but due to lack of implementation and interpretation of low, she has to suffer from various
crime and inequality in work-family. Upbringing of a person plays a very important role to
shape his attitude towards woman. Every male child should be taught to respect females and
treat them as equal. Indian men need to understand that women have dreams and aspirations
just like them. To make their dreams come true, women should be treated equally with men.