EMPIRICAL STUDY ON THE CHALLENGES AND IMPACT OF FEMALE LABOUR FORCE PARTICIPATION IN TAMIL NADU

Abstract

Normally, women are not only considered as valuable resources but also more determined in their aspirations than men. On one side, from the religious perspective women are treated with a high degree of respect in a country like India, but at the same time on the other side Indian culture has a long history with respect to women access to public domine such as on education, employment, dress code, public entertainment avenues with lots of restrictions. The policy changes such as liberalizations and modernizations have made a significant impact on women with respect to socio-cultural changes in Indian Society. The vicinity of reach out of women in education, the state of emancipation, awareness, and association of the women to fight for their political, socio-economic, property, and for other rights and privileges are stunned the society. Hence, the earning ability of women gives more importance and builds self-confidence to them to pursue, provide better education and employment platform for themselves and for their kids irrespective of the rural or urban, middle or upper-class sections in the society. The state of socio-economic empowerment status of the women is started using as a development indicator in the global scenario. But, the increased opportunities for women in different aspects whether it has been tapped by them in a real sense as it was intended is a debatable question in Indian Society. That is why the authors have taken the initiative to study the real facts of the women especially the working women with respect to their socio-economic, cultural, political and empowerment status of them in this paper. This paper is based on primary data collection with a scheduled questionnaire. Three different Districts have been chosen to represent Urban, Semi-urban and Rural regions in Tamil Nadu. The raw data is computed in SPSS and the empirical outcome of the study is taken using econometric techniques such as Linear Regression, LOGIT and PROBIT model.