Introduction Out of the total 397 million workers in India, 123.9 million are women.

Of these, roughly 106 million women work in rural areas and the remaining 18 million work in urban areas. Ninety six per cent of the women workers are in the unorganised sector. Overall, the female work participation rate has increased from 19.7 per cent in 1981 to 25.7 per cent in 2001. In the rural areas, it has increased from 23.1 per cent to 31 per cent and in the urban areas from 8.3 per cent to 11.6 per cent. Although more women seek work, a vast majority of them get only poorly paid jobs in the informal sector, without any job security or social security. This is because of the increasing unemployment and under employment among the male members of the family and the increasing cost of living as a result of the neo liberal economic policies. In addition to discrimination at the workplace, working women had to face several hazards even before the era of globalisation; but these have increased several times with the advent of the neo-liberal policies of globalisation, liberalisation and privatisation. In the era of globalisation, working women have become more vulnerable to intense exploitation; they are exposed to more and more risks and are forced to endure more and more stress and strain, both physical and mental. The hazards faced by workingwomen can be categorised as: The hazards, which working women face along with their male colleagues, i.e. those common to all the workers, in the era of globalisation The hazards, which working women face as women, at the work place The hazards, which working women face in their families and in the society In addition, women who actively participate in trade union activities also have to encounter many other problems, which their male counterparts do not face. Objectives of the Study To analysis the problem faced by working women To identify the balance of working women with their job & family To view both the external and internal problem faced by them. To know he comfort ness & benefit of working women.

Scope of the Study The study entitled with, the problems faced by working women. The main reason for analyzing the working womens problem is to understand their difficulties at work place with the personal / managerial activities. To find out the day to day problem of working women both internally& externally

Limitations As the study has been confined itself to limit period It was not possible to cover all working womens in a limited period of time. The study totally depends on respondents views which may be biased in nature. The study has been targeted towards sample size of 100. Review of Literature We examine experiences of sexual harassment reported by a random sample of undergraduate women at a maior U.S. -campus. Berkeley. Thirty percent reported having received unwanted sexual attention from at least one male instructor during their four years at college. Two general patterns emerge: Women carefully monitor and try to avoid new instructors who harass them. But when harassment occurs in more established student. teacher relationships, women often lose their academic self-confidence and become disillusioned with male faculty. We argue that the prevalence of sexual harassment has the cumulative enact of eroding women's commitment to careers it1 male-dominated areas.

Female workers have always been vulnerable 10 sexual abuse by male employees.! It wasn't until Redbook published a survey in 1976, however, that sexual harassment began to be recognized as a social problem (Safran, 1976).. Single then, numerous newspapers and magazines have contained accounts of female workers subjected to disruptive and coercive sexual harassment by male supen.'isors and co.workers. In non-random surveys (e.g. I Silverman, 1976) as many as 70 percent of respondents report harassment on the job. In Gutek el al. (1980) random survey in Los Angeles, 11 percent of the women experienced such non-verbal sexual behaviors as looks, gestures. and touching. Women in various occupations and institutions have taken legal action in response to sexual harassment or the repercussions of failing to comply with to be sexual demands of male superiors. As with rape (Rose 1977a,b), feminists have been instrumental in promoting the awareness that sexual harassment on the job is a serious social problem and have encouraged victims to seek legal redress for their grievances. Administrators, responding to public pressure. have begun to acknowledge the prevalence of the problem. The key to this recognition has been the conceptualization and labeling of a broad class of behaviors as sexual harassment.1 MacKinnon (1979:27) notes: "Until 1976. lacking a term to ex. press it. sexual harassment was literally unspeakable, which made a generalized. shared, and social definition of it inaccessible. to What heretofore have often been viewed as largely unrelated and in many instances inconsequential behaviors are now viewed as part of a single pattern: Sexual harassment can be any or all of the following: verbal sexual suggestions or jokes, constant leering or ogling, "accidentally" brushing against your job a "friendly" pat, squeeze. pinch or arm around you, catching you alone for a quick kiss the explicit proposition backed by threat of losing your job. and forced sexual relations (WWUI, 1978:1). Research Methodology Research Design Descriptive research is used for the study. It includes survey and fact finding inquiries of different kinds. The major purpose of descriptive research and description of the respondent at present. Sampling Method The sampling method indicates how the sample units are selected. the most important decision in this regard is to determine which of the probability or non- probability samples is to be chosen. There are basically 2 types of sampling methods: One is probability sampling Method and other Non probability sampling method. For this study sampling random, is used which sampling women non probability under the sampling. Sample Size For the study 100 working women are taken. Sources of Data Both primary & secondary sources are used for the data collection. The data from primary sources has been collected mainly by conducing survey with the help of questionnaire. The primary data were collected from various respondents through the questionnaire. Secondary data were collected from books and websites. Method of Date Collection Questionnaires are used to collect the data from the respondents. The questionnaire consists of 24 questions. The questionnaire has designed by the researcher according to the objective of the study. Close end questionnaire are used for the comfort of the respondents. Analytical Tools The analysis was carried out by adopting the percentage analysis method and chi-square method. Charts percentage Chi-Square Test Weighted Average Likert Scale Cross Tabulation Charts Bar charts and pie charts are used to get a clear look at the tabulated value. Percentage Analysis

Percentage analysis refers to a special kind of ratio. Percentage is used in making comparisons between 2 or more series of data. Percentage relates the data figure with the base figure studied. The formula for percentage analysis is Number of Respondents Percentage analysis = ----------------------------------- x 100 Sample Size Chi-Square Test Chi-Square test is the non-parametric test of significant differences between the observed distribution of data among the observed distribution of data among categories and the expected distribution based on the null hypothesis.
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Weighted Average An average that takes into account the proportional relevance to each component, rather than treating each component equally. Weighted average can be defined as averages by certain component items are multiplied by certain value (weights) of the aggregated of the products are divided by the total of weights. _ XW Wf = ------W

Likert Scale The liker scale is designed to examine how strongly subjects agree or disagree with statements on a (5) point. Scale with the following anchors. Cross Tabulation A non parametric measure of association between the various to calculated the ranking method.