Title of the Project: A study on Quality of Life of Working Womens in

Chhattisgarh State.

Introduction:
Men are bread winners, women are home-makers It was the time when husband earns and wifes were staying at home, busy with family chores. But now the time has changed womens are becoming professional and they are also earning. Though the women have come out to work but still they have to cook and look after the childrens. So how does she balance her work with life at home? Womens in India are still struggling to establish their own identity. They have to face difficult situations because of competing demands between job and family life. But still Indian womens are all the way to break the glass ceiling. Question is now that hows the quality of life of professional womens and how much an organization is supporting to maintain a good Quality of Life. Quality of life is not only job satisfaction. But there are other factors involved like the physical conditions of the workplace, which contribute to a bitter or worse quality of life at work. Other relevant factors are the level of stress, fatigue, over crowding and weekend work schedules and the relations that the worker maintains with others in the workplace. This paper highlights on the demand of QWL by professional womens among different age groups. Along with it the role played by an organization to maintain a good quality of life for working womens. Apart from that the work life of male is also been taken into consideration and a comparative study of male and female requirement of QWL is done. The Changing Equations of New Era The Machine Age Stress Work-Life Balance High You went to worklife started only when you go home The Industrial Age Higher Not only are people working at work , but also at home The Networked Age Highest 24 hour work days split into compartment dedicated for life Both men and women work and tend to the home

Women & Work

The men worked Both men and and women tended women worked and the house women still tended the house

Objectives of the study:

Primary Objective: To find out the quality of life among working women among different private and public sector (ICICI Bank, SBI Bank, CSEB). Secondary Objectives: 1234To find out whether QWL differs between male and female employees. To find out the requirement of QWL among womens of different ages To find out the need of QWL across different status. To find out need of QWL among womens of different organizations

Research Methodology:
Source of Data: Data is collected through Primary sources. Information will be gathered through Survey method. Sample Size: The sample size for the study is 100. Among them 50 female and 50 male. Study will be done from SBI Bank (15 female respondents), ICICI Bank (15 female respondents), CSEB (20 female respondents) and Bhilai Steel Plant (50 male respondents). All the age groups, married to unmarried, women and men with or without children are respondents. Structured questionnaire is being used for the research. Statistical Tool: All the statistical tools like: test of significance, regression, correlation, histogram, pie-charts etc. are executed for the analysis. Systematic flow of diagrams is been used for the explanation.

Literature Review:
According to the WHOQOL group, QOL is defined as the individuals perception of his position in life in the content of his culture and the value systems of the society in which he lives compared to his objectives, expectations, standards and concerns. (WHO QOL Group 1995, P.1405)

Research on career women in India shows that work and family dilemmas are often different from those reported by women in the west (Sekaran 1992). Women in India experience considerable pressure in the morning before going out to work and after work, to do all that is necessary for the family by Paul, Lewis and Kagan (1999). As compared to their counterparts in other parts of the world, Indian employees face a lot of difficulties in managing their work and life. For maintaining work-life balance, social support plays a very significant role for women managers. In societies, where there is low gender egalitarianism, such as in India, spousal support is exteremely important for women (Rosenbaum and cohen, 1999). But still the expectation that women should give priority to the family suggest that women managers would experience higher level of parental role- oriented than men (Aryee, Srinivas and Tan 2005). Women managers report greater stress than men managers due to child bearing, conflicts with their parents and other family related problem (Davidson and copper , 1986). Employed women who are married and those who have children tend to experience high levels of career- family conflict because of the conflicting pressures arising from family and work (Greenhaus and Bentell, 1985, Sekaran, 1986). This review of literature presents the problems of work-life imbalance incase of women professionals around the world. It shows that women professionals in India are more vulnerable to this problem because of societal and cultural reasons. The following study is an attempt to understand and analyze these issues through an empirical research.

Possible Findings:
In India still the womens have to look after the family members alone. Female employees require more quality of work life than men. Female with childrens are rushing with time management. HR policies of organizations are encouraging the womens and providing them conducive work environment.

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Submitted By: Pratibha Barik M.Phil Batch -2010-11 Institute of Management Pt. Ravi Shankar Shukla University