Modernisation and Status of Working Women in India

This book is the outcome of the conclusions of an empirical study of about 200 working women of Delhi falling under different categories of professions, the basic objective of which has been to evaluate the position of working women in India in the light of modernization. On the basis of the findings of the study, it is heartening to note that all the hypotheses developed at the beginning of the study stand valid viz., Having education and employment to their credit the working women will have a different view about the existing society; with growing economic independence there will be a marked attitudinal change among the working women; being fully exposed to modernization and westernization the working women will have a different attitude than what the non-working women have about the status of women in society; the working women will be more exposed to westernization than their non-working counterparts. The generalizations, made on the basis of responses of the present study will prove helpful to the researchers, policy makers and administrators who are interested in/concerned with further studies about the status of working women.