A STUDY ON PROBLEMS FACED BY MARRIED NON-WORKING WOMEN WHILE TAKING DECISIONS IN THEIR HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS

The process of decision making is one of the most complex mechanisms of human thinking. one of our major and constant activities is making decisions. Some decisions we make of our choosing, but many others are focused upon us. The most important aspect of making decisions is that as often as possible they should be right decisions. Right decisions usually conclude as issue, but wrong decisions call for more and more decisions in order to rectify the mistake of the initial decision. Some decisions are irrevocable and once they are made they cannot be retracted. So it is very important in these cases that the decisions are well thought out and not fast made. Women plays a vital role in the family. Even though the women are not going out for a work they have to face a lot of problems in and out of their households. Making decisions in the households is complex task now a days. Here as attempt is made to study problem faced by non-working women while making decisions in their household affairs and to study the coping strategies adopted to manage the problem faced by them. Structured questionnaire were used to collect the data. Primary data were used. Convenient random sampling has been for sampling techniques100 non-working women were employed to collect the data. Simple percentage analysis, chi-square test were used to utilize the data. It is found that only less number of women were coming forward to make decisions in their households.