Working Womens' Participation in Household Decision Making (A Sociological Study of Pokhara Metropolitan City, Ward No. 8)

Abstract

Education is one of the important approaches to uplift the condition of women from the conservative norms ,values and patriarchal society. The main objective of this study were to describe the participation of women in the domestic role and in the household decision making process .This research was an attempt to find out the status of working women school teacher in the domestic role and household decision making from their living area .This research has assessed weather they are successful to change their socio-economic status in society. In addition to this study has explored to what extent age education, caste family income and decision making in various part of their professional and personal life. For the successful achievement of the aboard objective, several tools and techniques have been used. The research concerns with both primary as well as secondary source of data but emphases has given to the primary source of data as it is more reliable, authentic and chose to reality .Further more focus group discussion with concern people interview with respondent ,observation of school ,collect data and analysis. The data were collected through the questionnaire, focus group discussion, interview and case study .The study has tried to trace to role of working women in the domestic role and household decision making process .The specific objective were to identity the role decision making in their family .The outcomes of the research has improve as more than previous years .However male are in permanent job where as female are temporary job. The study shows that any few of the married women school teacher were holding the master degree. Most of the male and female are found to be co-operation to each other in every sector of the work. Decision making power school teacher of Kaski district is found to be satisfactory.