Abstract:
It was a practice that women would principally do the household tasks,
bringing up families and men would work to impart financial supports to the
families. But in course of time due to declining population, education, economic
welfare and women liberation movement, that convention has changed gradually.
Women now seek out careers for livelihood and earning money as well as for
identification, development and self-actualization and self esteem. They do not focus
on just supplementing the earnings of their family but also feel like to make a fuller
use of their talents and skills to secure for themselves and their family members the
best of nourishment, education and cultural life. However, although the recent
practice of women working bring financial independence, it also exalts difficulties
and stresses to the working women’s lives in terms of various elements of the job
situation such as lack of job security, social protection, interpersonal relations at
work, responsibility conflict and uncertainty, lack of autonomy and participation at
work, organizational arrangement and atmosphere, career prospects, work and
family balances issues, disproportionate work load, health and safety risks, low wage
etc. The present study contains the information and situation on working women, the
hazards and occupational strains they face at work and in family life in many
developed and developing countries including Bangladesh. Besides, this study has
also tried to illustrate where the difficulties are and how far these for working
women can be solved by giving them emotional sustenance, voicing against the long
standing harassment of women and advocating equality for them.
