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International Journal of Home Science

2019, VOL. 5 ISSUE 1, PART D

Involvement of working and non-working women in Home activities

Author(s): Dr. Jyoti Solunke and Shital M Rathod
Abstract:
An investigation was carried out to know the involvement of working and non working women in home activities. Two districts were selected i.e. Yeotmal & Parbhani under this Gunj & Bori from pusad and Daithana & Pokharni from Parbhani villages were selected. The total respondents included in the study were 600. It consists of working (300) and non working (300) women sample. Personal Interview method was used for data collection. Statistical techniques viz., frequency and percentage, was used for analyzing the data. The findings revealed It can be expressed from the table that that majority 46.83 per cent of the women were from the age category 31-45 years, It was seen that less than half 39.83 per cent of the women were educated up to school level The major occupation of the selected women was found to be household (50.00 %). The working women were engaged in service i. e. Teacher, Lecturer, Professor, Doctor, Anganwadi workers, ASHA workers, Supervisor, Sarpanch, etc. were less than one third (16.33 %) As far as family type was concerned, joint type of families were seen to be predominant 53.5 per cent, The trend of medium sized (5-8 members) families was found to be in less than half 49.00 per cent of the selected families It was observed that half 50.83 per cent of them had their annual income up to above Rs. 1,00,000/- most of the respondents 93.83 per cent had no membership it was noted that majority of the families 91.33 per cent were having land line/mobile phones that a huge majority 86.16 per cent of the women had no contacts with any extension agent. It is reviewed from the above table that women were involved in the all purchase activities except Farm equipments and Electrical purchasing. Most of the women were purchase of Ornaments and Clothes joint with husband or male. Some of the purchasing issues were manage jointly with male. maximum of the women 62.83,59.00, 61.16 and 49.33 per cent respectively were participating independently in the activity preparation of food like cleaning &cutting vegetables, Actual preparation of curry, Chapati/bhakri making and Serving food respectively.
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How to cite this article:
Dr. Jyoti Solunke, Shital M Rathod. Involvement of working and non-working women in Home activities. Int J Home Sci 2019;5(1):189-192.

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