Role and Status of Working Women

This book, based upon empirical findings, seeks to provide new sociological insights into the intricate realities pertaining to an emerging section of society that holds key to the systematic understanding of and implications of seminal significance for contemporary Indian society. This book incorporates much needed and less adopted sociological perspective in approaching the phenomenon of women, work, family and marriage promising a novel and fresh look at these issues. The book has succeeded in capturing emerging trends of aspirations, achievements, challenges and constraints among womenfolk taking to gainful employment. It deals diligently with minute aspects of work life of women and these are interwoven to present a meaningful fabric that provides integrated, insightful and empirical insights into the functional and attitudinal aspects as well as ethos and pathos of on the job and off the job lives, and their interfaces, faced by Indian working women.