Psychological And Physical Problems Experienced By Women Working In Textile Showrooms In

There are many problems at work place. Women still face blatant discrimination at their workplaces. A major problem faced by the working women is sexual harassment at the work place. Further, women employees working in night shift are more vulnerable to such incidents. Also, Indian women are often deprived of promotions and growth opportunities at work places but this doesn't apply to all working women. Today, almost all working women are prone to sexual harassment irrespective of their status, personal characteristics and the types of their employment. They face sexual harassment on way on transports, at working places. It is shocking that the law protectors are violating and outraging modesty of women. In this context, the present study is undertaken to know about socio demographic characteristics of the respondents to nd out psychological burden of the respondents, to nd out physical burden of the respondents, to know about the level of job satisfaction of the respondents and to know about working hours and income of the respondents. Hence for this study a diagnostic research design was used. The universe of the present study consists of girls working in textiles particularly in N.S.B. Road Trichy. Simple random method of was used to select 50 respondents. The researcher used a self prepared interview schedule and assessed the psychological and physical burden of girls working in textiles. The major ndings of the study and suggestions will be discussed in the full paper