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Problems of women scientist - A sociological analysis

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Title Problems of women scientist - A sociological analysis
 
Creator Rahul
 
Contributor Tyagi, Rashmi
 
Subject Grain, Sorghum, Genetics, Yields, Genotypes, Developmental stages, Planting, Fungi, Biological phenomena, Phenotypes
 
Description Though the education and employment environment in the last two decades for women in science
and technology has witnessed a positive transformation, the deep rooted issues in socio culture acceptance
have not been adequately addressed. As a result women are still victims of gender disparity in families and
at work places. The other factors that play a significant role in women’s academic careers include the
constraints of dual careers; access to quality child care, individuals perception regarding professional
recognition and career satisfaction and other quality of life issues.
Analysis revealed that 63% of respondent’s belonged to nuclear families while rest 37% in joint
families. The majority of respondents was married and had arranged marriages. The women scientists are
constantly confronted with the ideas and expectations of traditional society while conforming to a
contemporary code of conduct at work. Analysis revealed that nearly half of the women scientists they
belonged to old age group followed by 31%, 22% in middle and young age group respectively. The
majority of the respondents were doctorates in the present study (80%) followed by any other professional/
vocational degree like B.Ed. (11%) and rest 9% were post graduates. The study revealed, that majority of
the respondents (30%) were born in villages followed by small city (26%) and rest of 22%, 19% and 3%
from town, big city and metropolises respectively. Analysis revealed that 92% of the respondents were
married while 3% of the respondents were unmarried. The study reported that work beyond office hours
(51%) is the major social problem of women scientist followed by inflexibility of working hours (38%).
Age, caste, education, family type, family size, mass media exposure and service experience of the
respondents was found highly significantly associated with the level of social problem of women scientists.
Majority of middle age of women (58.06%) and young respondents (40.90%) had high level of social
problem on the other hand medium (51.06%) level of social problems were found among the respondents
who belonged to old age group. It is clearly revealed that 43% of the respondents faced problem of late
hours working in the office followed by (24%) of the respondents who faced problem while away from
office to attend conference and it also clearly revealed that 32% respondents had partly control over their
income followed by 25% of the respondents’ incomes were contro lled by any other combination. The main
psychological problems faced by 46% of the respondents were sleep disturbance followed by 34% of the
respondents who had severe headache problem. Age, caste, education and mass media exposure of the
respondent is found highly significantly associated with level of domestic problems face by respondents.
The majority of women were satisfied with the environment at work place.
 
Date 2016-10-21T13:48:54Z
2016-10-21T13:48:54Z
2015
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/81246
 
Language en
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher CCSHAU