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1. In the last four decades there has been an alarming rise in the number of lower middle and middle class women who seek employment to supplement their household income. While there is little doubt that women from the lower ranks of society have always had to work in this fields of in petty jobs to sustain themselves and their families, there were strong objections and a marked reluctance among the middle classed to allow women to step out of the house to earn a living. Their basic role continued to be gender based, as  daughter, wife and mother. Much has changed since independence.

2. Education, great opportunities for acquiring diverse skills, growing urbanisation, rise in cost of living, growing aspiration for a better standard of living are among the many factors that have led to a continual rise in the number of women who seek a job, whether at home or outside. In the process, erstwhile prejudices and barriers about women entering certain professions are breaking down.

3. This is particularly manifested in urban areas, where the demands of city life and its impersonal character made it simpler. Estimates show that there has been a 2.68% rise in women's participation in the total work force in 1991. While women accounted for 25.89% of the work force in 1981, it went up to 28.57% in 1991. There is no doubt that there are several dimensions to this trend and the impact that it has both on the family and the society at large. These dimensions have the prospect of being a subject of intensive research which can have a bearing on enunciating relevant policies, programmes and
legislations. An effort towards this end has been made by studies, some of them have been conducted on behalf of the national commission and have been forwarded to the government for acting upon them. Among them recommendations were to modify service rules to grant six months of maternity leave instead of four and a half months as it is normally given at present and to ensure that it is applicable to the private sector too.

4. It is also suggested that the five days week presently applicable to the government offices be made applicable to the private companies and institutions also and the duty hours be reduced by one hour to enable the ladies to leave for home by 4 p.m. to take care of their house and children. A fleet of special buses be provided to enable them to save their time and energy for the office and the home. Provision be made for a quality medicare, separate common room and toilets in offices. Working on the responses provided by the women about the boss-employee relationship in the offices, the study recommended training programmes and workshops on the behavioural aspects of the job so as to maintain a proper culture at office.

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