Job Satisfaction of Women Labourers (A Sociological Study of Pokhreli Brick Factory, Tanahun, Nepal)

Abstract

This study entitled Job Satisfaction and Problems of Women Labourers (A Sociological Study of Pokhreli Brick Factory, Tanahun, Nepal) aimed to reveal the job satisfaction status and the problems faced by women labourers in Pokhreli Brick Factory, Tanahun. The overall objective of this study was to find out the status of women labourers inPokhreliBrick Factory, Tanahun. A descriptive research design was used in the study.The data were collected from the total women labourers(66) who were working in Pokhreli Brick Factory, Tanahun. The data were collected through the direct personal interview with interview schedule, observation and case study. The collected data we recoded, recoded, scrutinized and entered into the computer using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences(SPSS) software. However, the qualitative data were manually processed. The data have been presented and analyzed with the help of descriptive and inferential statistical tools. From the study, it was found that most of the working women in Pokhreli Brick Factory were literate, though the level of education was low. It indicates that the trend has changed and educated women want to work outside to share the economic burden of the family.The female worker in the brick factory were from different socio-cultural background. Majority of the females were working to support their families.Married working women said that they had to work because the occupations of their husbands were less prestigious and semi-skilled.The low level pays from the job of the husbands could not manage the expense of their family.So they had to work for the education of their children and to support the family. However, their status of job satisfaction was not satisfactory.They were not fully happy with the job description, incentives and perks and the salary. It was because they faced the problems of being inferiority, overloaded, exploited, and discriminated while working in the brick factory. Some of them intended to quit the job soon when their children would support them economically.They faced the problem of untimely pay of the salary, interruption of owner in the work and unequal wages.