Job satisfaction of Work Life Balance of Women employed in Unorganised sector in Kanchipuram District, Tamilnadu

Abstract

In the construction industry around one third of the workers are women and children. Women workers are illiterate and therefore face serious work-related problems, namely wages and gender discrimination, sexual harassment, unsafe working environment etc. Despite all this, the construction industry mainly attracts women workers. Women workers skills are almost at the same level but they are not considered as such and asked to help their male co-workers. Husbands of some woman workers consume alcohol and beat them. Some woman workers develop relations with co-workers and get trapped. The women employees in kanchipuram city constitute universe for the study. The researcher has drawn 600 women employees working in construction industry in various taluk constituting 100 employees from each taluk for the purpose of the study. Data was collected with the help of a structured questionnaire and data was analyzed using statistical tools like ANOVA and Mean score. The study revealed that the levels of work-life balance of women employees in construction industry unorganised sectors of the study are significantly different.