Division of Labor on the Basis of gender in Household sphere (A Sociological Study of Palungtar Municipality Ward No. 10,Gorkha)

Abstract

Division of labor on the basis of gender in household sphere is a sociological study ofPalungtar Municipality wards no 10, Gorkha. Statement of the problem is division oflabor between men and women. To find out the responsible factors for the condition oflabor between male and female in household sphere, to find out the gender situation, arethe major objectives of the study. Where as this study helps to facilitate other researcherswho want to study on the subject of other gender related issues of study area and thefinding of the study will be helpful for other researchers to make comparative study of thesame study area, after some years, to find out change. This study also had some limitation.This study is based on small sample size and the divisions of labor of Palungtarmunicipality ward no 10, Gorkha district. It doesn’t generalize to the whole nation. Various tool and technique are applied in the study to find out the appropriate result. Theresearch area of the study is Palungtar Municipality ward no 10 in Gorkha District. Tillthe time the researcher, not found any study in the same topic. Both Primary andsecondary data are used but emphasis given to primary data. Household built in Ward No.10 is the universe. From the 149 household, 96 has been selected as sample throughrandom sampling. Interview schedule, focus group discussion and case study are the datacollection method. . Quantitative data are presented via table, pie-chart, bar-diagram,percentage as required where qualitative data are analyzed through descriptive method. Major findings of the study are, among the 96 household 37.5% family are in joint familyand 62.5% are in nuclear family. There are 85.41% Hindus, 5.20% Buddhist, 7.30%Christian and 20.9% Muslims. Most of the people of the study area used Nepali languageas their communicative language where very few speak their own cultural language. It isalso found women’s literate rate is found less than the men’s. In economic resources malefound active and women are found depended upon them. Analysis of labor division in the family is determined by age, gender, educational status and health condition. People arebenefited from the labor division in various ways in the family such as economic help, fastand efficient, responsibility as well as skill and capacity development. Perception betweenson and daughter is found 58.34% for son and 41.66% for daughter in the study area. It isfound that 31.25% response on child bearing and family planning after 1 year where as41.67% after two years and 27.08% on understanding between family members. SimilarlyIt is also found that 47.91% of women are involved in household work where 21.87% ofmen and 30.20% both male and female does work together As per the objective of the study it concluded, economy, education, opportunity andfunctional structure are the major factors responsible for division of labor. Women arelagging in decision making process, foreign employment, skill development program butare superior in house hold chores. Women are getting less opportunity in most of thesocio-economic (women employment, politics, family planning etc ) system but the conceptis being supportive to women via various training, skill development program andawareness program.