LIFESTYLE OF WOMEN WORKERS IN STEEL UTENSIL INDUSTRIES AT NORTH CHENNAI

Abstract

Women, of course, have always worked. Today, in addition to the traditional unpaid labour required for maintaining a household, which often involves growing food and securing water and fuel supplies, women increasingly take on paid work outside the home to augment personal and family income. The world over, these dual responsibilities respectively termed 'reproductive' and 'productive' by social scientists have always play vital role in human economic activity. Equally importance, the newly found economic independence of millions of woman has inevitably caused dramatic transformation of women's self image, their growing sense of independence as well as mounting responsibilities and expectations at home and in their communities. It is an open secret that women take up employment mainly due to economic necessity and to supplement their family income. However there are other factors like; to pass time, to meet professional obligations, to attain economic independence and to develop personality, desire to utilize the education, social role and personality and to get rid of the monotony of home .These are some of the factors identified by many authors. Hoffman (1974) views that the working mother provides a different role model than does the nonworking mother. Modern women aspire to utilize their education and mental abilities in a very useful way. It is natural that the increases in dual career families are inevitable (Porter and Angle, 1980).