Womens attitide to career and achievement a study of lady academicians in selected colleges of khurda district of odisha

Abstract

newlineThe thesis broadly initiates an endeavour to delineate and reflect on the f work-family dynamics, make a sense of the hitherto perceived the notion of work through the prism of gender. With the growing presence and participation of women in work domain becoming an irreversible process, the academic piece seeks to examine how women s presence in public work sphere affects/influences the character of work - that is, the changes that it effects in the very nature, connotation, location, ethos as well as culture of work. What it especially wishes to find out is the way employment influences/changes women s lives and the way family impinges upon career. One might argue that the proportion of women as compared to that of men in the sphere of employment is very small; although their entry into the sphere of paid work is gradually increasing, the rate of such increase is very slow. True, this contention is not unfounded. Yes, as it is often claimed, their numerical presence is comparatively low. On the contrary, it is also true that their statistical number is steadily increasing. Notwithstanding such slow but steady increase, what is Important for a critical observer is not the statistical facet of their employment, rather what is most important for him is to comprehend and conceptualize is the sociological meaning of women s intervention in public employment: the way they relate themselves to paid work, the way they are perceived by their male co-workers, the way they experience themselves as workers, the way they relate themselves to male-co-workers, the way they (re)definite work, the kind of challenges they encounter, the strategies they adopt to balance home and paid work, the constraints/strains they face, the kind of impact that employment casts on their lives, the way they adapt to circumstances, the kind of changes occurring in public work domain and so on. Thus, although women s presence in public work domain appears insignificant from a layman s perspective, the issues arising out of their i